Book/Printed Material Letters from America. Volume 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1 LETTERS FROM AMERICA. BY JOHN ROBERT GODLEY. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CITY OF WASHINGTON LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1844.
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
- Date: 1844-01-01
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Image 3 of Volume 1 TO CHARLES BOWYER ADDERLEY, ESQ. M.P., THE FOLLOWING WORK, FOR THE PUBLICATION OF WHICH HE IS CHIEFLY RESPONSIBLE, IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, AS A SLIGHT MEMORIAL OF A LONG AND INTIMATE…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 5 of Volume 1 PREFACE. It must be confessed that the tone of most of our English travellers in America is at least unfortunate. While the subjects and the styles are varied according to the opinions…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 6 of Volume 1 viii of Washington Irving, for instance, or those of Willis, Miss Sedgwick, or even Cooper, and compare the spirit and feeling which they evince with that which animates the writings of Hall,…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 7 of Volume 1 ix vituperation or satirical bitterness. Upon many (I may say, upon most) points my opinions are diametrically opposed to those of the great majority of Americans, as regards their religious, political, and…
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Image 8 of Volume 1 x for their land than our colonists, and yet undersell them in their own markets; wherever administrative talent is called into play, whether in the management of a hotel, or a ship,…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 9 of Volume 1 xi to him, about the tariff, and the bank, and the Ashburton treaty. Now, any where else the result of all this would be the neglect of private business,—not so here; an…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 10 of Volume 1 xii of a similar nature are at work among ourselves (as they undoubtedly are), it is useful and interesting to observe them in fuller operation and more unchecked luxuriance in America; many…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 11 of Volume 1 xiii which there are infinitely more points of contact, and therefore of probable dissension,—yet, at the same time, I am inclined to think it is also in some measure attributable to the…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 12 of Volume 1 xiv and tobacco-chewing, and all the crambe decies recocta, which Mrs. Trollope began, and on which every succeeding traveller has been ringing the changes ever since; but I think I may fairly…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 13 of Volume 1 xv to point out to others the path which I am unable to tread myself; and I shall be amply repaid if, by enumerating and touching upon a few of the topics…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 14 of Volume 1 xvi less frequented parts of America; I met with no accident or adventure of any kind; and I had no further means of becoming acquainted with the country and the people than…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 15 of Volume 1 xvii however, conclude these prefatory remarks without bearing testimony to the remarkable kindness and cordiality which, like all Englishmen properly recommended, I met with, both in Canada and in the States. In…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 17 of Volume 1 CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LETTER I. BOSTON. Halifax.—Atlantic Steam-Navigation.—Landing at Boston.—First Impressions.—Suburbs of Boston.—Lowell.—American Factory System.—Comparison with that of England.—Prospects for the Future.—Quantity of “Wild Land” in New England.—Moral Effects of…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 18 of Volume 1 xx LETTER III. SARATOGA. Hotels.—The Hudson.—Washington Irving.—Emigration.—Albany.—Van Rennselaer Estate.—Saratoga.—Americans and English at Watering Places.—Modern Female Costumes.—Church at Saratoga.—Duelling. 32 LETTER IV. MONTREAL. Journey from Saratoga.—Interesting Country.—American Stages.—Railroads.—Scenery.—Lake George.—Ticonderoga.—Lake Champlain.—Last War between the…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 19 of Volume 1 xxi Scenery of the Ottawa.—Advantages possessed by English Climate.—Its Effects on Health and Beauty.—The Manor-house.—Prospects of Emigrant Farmers in Lower Canada.—Village Church.—Wheat Crop.—The “Fly.” 92 LETTER VII. KINGSTON. Bytown.—Chaudière Falls.—“Lumber” Trade.—Policy of…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 20 of Volume 1 xxii LETTER X. WOODSTOCK. A Labourer's Account of his first Four Years in Canada.—Prospects afforded to a Gentleman-farmer.—Hamilton.—Traveller from the Far-west.—Country between Hamilton and Woodstock.—Brantford.—Indian Village.—Divine Service in the Mohawk Language.—Progress of…
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Image 21 of Volume 1 xxiii LETTER XIII. KINGSTON. Journey to the Trent.—A Canadian Farmer's Account of the Western States.—Voyage to Kingston.—Canadian Politics.—The “Crisis.”—Arguments in favour of Sir Charles Bagot's Policy.—Cases of Ireland and Canada compared.—Ultimate Advantage…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 23 of Volume 1 LETTERS FROM AMERICA. LETTER I. BOSTON. HALIFAX.—ATLANTIC STEAM-NAVIGATION.—LANDING AT BOSTON.—FIRST IMPRESSIONS.—SUBURBS OF BOSTON.—LOWELL.—AMERICAN FACTORY SYSTEM.—COMPARISON WITH THAT OF ENGLAND.—PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE.—QUANTITY OF “WILD LAND” IN NEW ENGLAND.—MORAL EFFECTS OF CONTINUAL TRANSMIGRATION…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 24 of Volume 1 2 gulf stream, in which they melt; and as fogs are almost perennial in the same locality, there is considerable danger of running foul of them: two or three vessels have been…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 25 of Volume 1 3 Lady Bagot, spent two days at its mouth, unwilling to venture while the fog was so thick upon entering, for the coast is iron-bound, and dangerous in the extreme. I observed…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 26 of Volume 1 4 fuel be discovered. As it is, the steamers are, as far as freight is concerned, nothing but coal-barges. The Acadia, whose measurement is 1200 tons, carries 600 tons of coal at…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 27 of Volume 1 5 far more manageable, and cannot be driven on a lee-shore. Almost all the accidents which have happened to them, have been caused by bad pilotage, (except in the case of the…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 28 of Volume 1 6 grotesque, bidding utter defiance to every rule of architecture, and generally painted all the colours of the rainbow; so that, except for their being surmounted by steeples, it would be impossible…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 29 of Volume 1 7 voyage round the Cape, and beating the Himalaya ice in the Calcutta markets! I have been making, since my arrival, several excursions in the neighbourhood; amongst others one (by railroad) to…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 30 of Volume 1 8 averaging about eighty cents (3 s. 6 d. ), those of the women half a dollar per day. They work from five A. M. to seven P. M., with the intermission…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 31 of Volume 1 9 At present the factories are supplied by a perpetual immigration from the agricultural districts; farmers' children come in from the surrounding states, spend three or four years here, accumulate a small…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 32 of Volume 1 10 system of competition such as ours, where the labourers are struggling to outbid each other, and the manufacturers to undersell the rest of the world, such a free-and-easy mode of proceeding…
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Image 33 of Volume 1 11 system were to be engrafted upon the undisciplined habits and lax morality of the South, I feel convinced that even now the worst results would follow. The experience of all ages…
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Image 34 of Volume 1 12 cut, and what one now sees is the second growth. In many places too the land has once been cleared and cultivated. When the virgin soil was exhausted, the farmer girded…
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Image 35 of Volume 1 13 a fresh example of the paradoxical rule which has so frequently obtained, that the prosperity and greatness of a country will be in an inverse ratio to its capabilities of soil…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 36 of Volume 1 14 connects him in feeling and interests with his ancestors, and which he hopes to transmit to a posterity engaged in the same pursuits, and occupying the same position as himself; in…
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Image 37 of Volume 1 15 LETTER II. NEW YORK. JOURNEY FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK.—LOCAL ADVANTAGES WHICH NEW YORK POSSESSES.—PROSPECTS OF BOSTON.—OF THE ATLANTIC CITIES OF THE SOUTH.—FRENCH AND ENGLISH COLONIAL SYSTEM.—ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.—ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE.—AMERICA REPRESENTS…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
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Image 38 of Volume 1 16 to its tonnage, long, gaily painted, crowded, uncomfortable, cheap, and fast. Some of the boats on the Hudson are quite wonderful in their dimensions (there is one, I think, 350 feet…
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Image 39 of Volume 1 17 for the produce of the western country to flow into the Atlantic. This it is which gives New York her superiority over the other maritime cities, and which will enable her…
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Image 40 of Volume 1 18 development. Her dependence then is principally on the carrying trade. New England stands to the rest of the Union in the position which Holland formerly occupied with respect to Europe; she…
- Contributor: Godley, John Robert
- Date: 1844-01-01