Book/Printed Material A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie.
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Image 1 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. A JOURNEY IN NORTH AMERICA, DESCRIBED IN FAMILIAR LETTERS TO AMELIA OPIE. BY JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY. “He is a freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside.” Cowper. Not...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 2 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. E 165 G 98- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 3 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. A JOURNEY IN NORTH AMERICA. 309 59 LETTER I. Earlham, 1 st month, 18 th, 1841. My dear Friend, I am glad that I at length find myself at leisure to record...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 4 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 2 engagements. I shall, of necessity, make some reference to them from time to time; but I now wish to note down the more common incidents of my travel—the objects, natural, civil,...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 5 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 3 dearest friends, I sailed from Liverpool in the Philadelphia packet Monongahela, Capt. Mierkin, on the 8th of the 7th month, (July) 1837. The commencement of an extensive pilgrimage by sea and...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 6 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 4 head-winds, and by that peculiarly distressing nausea which was produced in most of our company, myself amongst others, by the tossing of the vessel. Happily this inconvenience subsided after a short...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 7 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 5 When many hundred miles from land, we often observed a dark winged gull which the sailors call the shearwater; and, on one occasion, a very large bird, described by the captain...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 8 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 6 feeding-ground for codfish, is of vast value both to England and America. We observed a large number of fishing schooners, and having been ourselves unsuccessful in the attempt to catch fish,...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 9 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 7 floating on its back, was observed alongside of the vessel; also a small species of black whale, not to mention the schools of porpoises, in vast numbers, pursuing their course by...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 10 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 8 but before we could reach the shore, the wind hauled to the westward, becoming almost equally strong in this new direction. Happily we had succeeded in obtaining a skilful Yankee pilot...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 11 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 9 month (August)—the happy close of no unpleasant voyage, although of nearly seven weeks' continuance. Some kind friends were waiting my arrival, and I was soon conveyed, through streets shaded by trees,...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 12 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. LETTER II. Earlham, 1 st month, 21 st, 1841. My dear Friend, My stay in Philadelphia, on the present occasion, was only of three days, ending with the first of the week....- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 13 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 11 the view of attending the yearly meeting of Friends, then about to be held in it. Our route lay through Pittsburg which is distant nearly 400 miles from Philadelphia. The journey...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 14 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 12 I observed the osprey floating over one of these rivers; and a bald eagle, quietly seated on the top of an old pine, seemed entirely to disregard us as we passed...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 15 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 13 upper class of society, displayed no want of refinement or polish. Amongst them, were the four judges of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, in which law and equity are united, and...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 16 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 14 of the whole coloured race, of every grade, from the privilege of equal rights, on equal terms, with those among whom they dwell. The infliction of the unrighteous system of caste,...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 17 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 15 and inclined plains, being drawn up the latter by vast ropes set in motion by steam. This wondrous railroad is one of the most extraordinary works of man to be anywhere...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 18 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 16 therefore deprived of the opportunity of inspecting the Western Penitentiary of the state of Pennsylvania, which, like its prototype in Philadelphia, is arranged on the solitary system, and has the character...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 19 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 17 The name of this river is Indian—a word of a pleasant sound, and indicating the true character of the lovely stream—it means Beautiful. Our vessel, like many others of the kind...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 20 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. LETTER III. Earlham, 1 st month, 25 th, 1841. My dear Friend, The town of Wheeling, although infected, like the rest of Virginia, with the curse of slavery, derives considerable commercial prosperity...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 21 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 19 species of oak belonging to the forest of America; the principal of them are the white, black, red, and yellow, named, I believe, from the distinctive appearances of their bark. The...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 22 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 20 of rendezvous for the yearly meeting of Friends in Ohio. Vehicles of various shapes and sizes, were standing about the building—the horses being hitched , or fastened to branches of trees....- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 23 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 21 This goodly order is doubtless connected both with the habits of our education, and with the method of our discipline; but the only availing ground of it, is the dependence of...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 24 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 22 Friends, and their neighbours of every denomination. It is surprising with how much readiness the population in these half cultivated districts, may be convened for this purpose; and there certainly appeared...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 25 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 23 to be the universal order of things. At a cottage one morning, after a neighbouring meeting had been concluded—such a cottage as an English peasant might not unsuitably occupy—we were hospitably...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 26 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 24 I remember meeting three negroes one day on horseback. One of them was a farming man who had realized a little property; another a minister of the gospel, on his way...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 27 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 25 general application to the middle class of society in the country districts of America, especially those which are newly settled. Among the places I visited in Jefferson County, was Steubenville, a...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 28 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 26 by which I travelled, which was destitute of a place or places of public worship, or of the usual means of religious instruction. As far as I could perceive, the physical...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 29 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 27 LETTER IV. Earlham, 2 nd month, 1 st, 1841. My dear Friend, On the 23rd of the 9th Month (Sept.) 1837, I set out for my journey to Indiana by the...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 30 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 28 village of about 700 inhabitants. I was glad to observe two meeting-houses in the place, in one of which we held, during the evening, a satisfactory assembly for worship. A single...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 31 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 29 in England. I am rather disappointed by the absence of variety in birds and flowers; The country here has few ornaments. I have, however, observed several species of woodpecker—some gaily marked—haunting...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 32 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 30 some of the private dwellings are large and handsome. One gentleman has been building an excellent stone house at the expense of about £6000 sterling—lust a specimen of what American citizens...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 33 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 31 the breaking of that perfect silence which is here enjoined; from the very nature of things, it is to be feared that great severity is too often practised, and I remember...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 34 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 32 of the records of the prison, from which I learnt that a large number of its inmates had become criminals, through the medium of intemperance. I was sorry to hear that...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 35 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 33 After spending an interesting morning at Columbus, we took our afternoon stage to Jefferson, still on the national road, where we held a meeting in a little chapel belonging to the...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 36 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 34 pretty kind of partridge, gaily marked about the head. The day's journey which I am now describing, brought us to Springfield, a rising town of considerable importance, where we held a...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 37 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 35 American is seldom seen in what we call a passion. Sometimes these moving families would fill the houses of entertainment by the road-side at night. More frequently, however, we observed them...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 38 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. LETTER V. Earlham, 2 nd month, 3 rd, 1841. My dear Friend, Never, to the best of my knowledge, have I witnessed so remarkable an assemblage of people, as that which was...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 39 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 37 On the following morning we proceeded to the business of the church. All strangers had now withdrawn; the great shutters which divide the house in two, were let down; the one...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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Image 40 of A journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie. 38 Another point to which I allude is slavery , which formed the subject of a lively discussion. The result was the issuing of a powerful printed document on the evils of...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia - Gurney, Joseph John
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