LONDON:

PRINTED BY CHARLES WOOD,

Poppin's Court, Fleet Street.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. III.

JOURNEY TO PROVINCE TOWN.

Page

LETTER III.

Groton. Account of the Pequods. War between the Colonists

and that Tribe. Gallant Attack and Destruction of one of

their Forts by Captain Mason and his Troops. Pursuit

of the Pequods to Fairfield, and their final Destruction. Death

of Sassacus

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LETTER IV.

Indians still remain-

Stonington; cultivated partly by Tenants.

ing here.

Their degraded Character and Situation. The

Perfection to which Man arrives in a state of Nature.

Gene-

ral Observations upon the remnants of the Indian Tribes

now found in New-lingland. Means of effecting their Civili-

zation.........

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LETTER V.

Westerly. Charlestown.

South-Kingston. Aboriginal Tribes

formerly inhabiting New-England. Their Population. Num-

ber of Warriors, as estimated by General Gookin. War with

the Narrhagansetts. Attack and Capture of their Fortress.

Gallant Conduct of Captain Denison and others. Death of

Nanuntenoo......

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LETTER VI.

Canonicut Island. Newport; its Buildings, Harbour, and For-

tifications. Proposition of the French Government relative to

the Occupancy of Newport. Remarkable Cliffs and Chasm.

Enumeration of the Fish brought to this Market. Health-

fulness and Commerce of Newport. Its Settlement......

LETTER VII.

Battle between the Americans under General Sullivan and the

British commanded by Sir Robert Pigot. Stone Bridge.

Tiverton. State of Rhode-Island. Its Boundaries and Divi-

sions. Original Settlement. State of Religion and Learning.

Common Schools.......

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48

Helburne Woods.

LETTER VIII.

Westport.

New-Bedford. Its Situation,

Commerce, and Settlement. Attack on Fair-Haven by the

British in 1778. Gallant Defence of the Place by Major

Fearing. Rochester. Wareham. Proposed Canal across

the Peninsula of Cape Cod.

Sandwich.........

LETTER IX.

57

Country between Sandwich and Barnstable.

Barnstable. Yar-

mouth. Salt Works of Cape Cod. Observations on the Extent

of this Manufacture. Difficulties of Christianizing the In-

dians. Dennis. Harwich. Orleans......

Eastham.

LETTER X.

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Truro. Province Town. Beach Grass, its utility.

Soil very thin, and blown away from the White Sand beneath.

Manners and Habits of the Inhabitants of Province Town.

Its Fisheries and Harbour. Wellfleet. Return to Harwich.

66

Innkeeper........

Return to Sandwich.

LETTER XI.

Mission among the Indians at Massapee.

Visit to the Rev. Gideon Hawley, the Missionary. Descrip-

tion of the Peninsula of Cape Cod. Its Soil, Population, &c... 91

CONTENTS.

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LETTER XII.

Plymouth; the first Town settled in New-England. Rock on

which the Colonists first landed. Their Cemetery. Reflections

on the care of Divine Providence over them. Fisheries and

Commerce of Plymouth.....

LETTER XIII.

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98

Kingston. Marshfield. Scituate. Hingham. Weymouth.

Braintree. Quincy. Milton. Dorchester. Its early Set-

tlement. Fortifications erected by General Washington. Rox-

bury. Reverend John Elliott, the Apostle of the Indians........ 107

Dedham.

LETTER XIV.

Honourable Mr. Ames. Medfield attacked by the

Indians. Medway. Bellingham. Mendon. Peculiar kind

of Sheep. Uxbridge. Douglas. Forests. Thompson. The

Quinibaug and Country on its borders. Pomfret. Ashford.

Mansfield. Coventry. Bolton. Willington. Gap in the

Journey from New-Lebanon to Minden. Valley of the Mohawk.

Canajoharie. Minden. Thoughts on Religious Persecution.

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Palatines. German Flats. Utica. New-Hartford. Bro-

thertown. Brothertown Indians. Observations on the Dif

ferences of Complexion in the Human Race........

Hamilton.

LETTER IV.

Oneida Academy. Paris. Iron Mine. The

Measures adopted for the Support of Religion in this State

unhappy, and the Laws imperfect. Rome. Battle between

the English and Indians under Sir John Johnson and

the American Militia under General Herkimer. Canal.

Siege of Fort Stanwix.

LETTER V.

Story of Captain Greg. Whitesborough.

Judge White.

158

175

Herkimer. Canal at Little Falls. Captain Butler. De-

struction of Cherry Valley. Canajoharoo. Canajoharie ...... 186

Story of Mr. Fonda.

LETTER VI.

Sir William Johnson.

Prospect from

Tripe's Hill. Johnstown. Amsterdam. Character of Ho-

nourable John Jay; and of William Pitt Beers, Esq.

Cohoes. Waterford. Half-Moon. Stillwater. Saratoga... 197

LETTER VII.

Progress of General Burgoyne. Desertion of Ticonderoga.

Battle of Hubbardton; of Battle-hill. Wise Measures of

General Schuyler. Defeat of Colonels Baume and Breckman.

Battles of September 19th and October 7th. Surrender of

General Burgoyne. Reflections.......

LETTER VIII.

.... 207

Suratoga. Fort Miller. Fort Edward. Cambridge. Argyle.

The Baton Kill. Easton. Greenwich. Scotch Settlers.

Journey to Williamstown. Petersburgh. Pownal. Excur

sion to the Summit of Saddle Mountain. Natural Bridge.... 220

Journey to Pittsfield.

LETTER IX.

Bursting of a Cloud. Observations

on Forest Trees. Difference in the Quantity of Snow falling