JOHN BULL AND BROTHER JONATHAN, &c. &c. PUBLISHED BY JAMES EASTBURN & CO. AT THE LITERARY ROOMS, BROADWAY, CORNER OF PINE-STREET. Abraham Paul, printer. P325 BE Southern District of New-York, ss. E IT REMEMBERED, that on the fifteenth day of October, in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, James Eastburn & Co. of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Letters from the South; written during an excursion in the summer of 1816. By the Author of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, &c. &c. Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? HORACE." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "an Act supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints. CHARLES FINN, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York LETTER I. DEAR FRANK, IN order to lay a solid foundation for my travels, I ought first to tell how this new world was made; and, secondly, how it was peopled; since, if it had never been made or peopled, it would not be worth writing about. There are two ways of making a world, lately invented by the geologists -one by fire, the other by water. I mention these to show you it is no difficult matter; and you may take your choice of either, as people choose whether they will have their mutton roasted or boiled. But, though it was easy enough for the philosophers to tell how America was made, the peopling of it was not quite so trifling a job, and cost them more labour, than all the rest of the earth put together. The old world, it seems, was hugely sur 127444 |