American Notes :: CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Dedication of “American Notes”	v
Preface to the First Cheap Edition of “American Notes”	vii
Preface to the “Charles Dickens” Edition of “American Notes”	ix
AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION
CHAPTER I
Going Away	3
CHAPTER II
The Passage out	10
CHAPTER III
Boston	22
CHAPTER IV
An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System	52
CHAPTER V
Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York	60
CHAPTER VI
New York	67
CHAPTER VII
Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison	81
CHAPTER VIII
Washington. The Legislature. And the President’s House	94
CHAPTER IX
A Night Steamer on the Potomac River. Virginia Road, and a Black Driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburg Mail, and a Glimpse of the City. A Canal Boat	107
CHAPTER X
Some further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy, and its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg	121
CHAPTER XI
From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati	130
CHAPTER XII
From Cincinnati to Louisville in another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis	137
CHAPTER XIII
A Jaunt to the Looking-glass Prairie and back	147
CHAPTER XIV
Return to Cincinnati. A Stage-coach Ride from that City to Columbus, and thence to Sandusky. So, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara	153
CHAPTER XV
In Canada; Toronto; Kingston; Montreal; Quebec; St. John’s. In the United States again; Lebanon; The Shaker Village; West Point	167
CHAPTER XVI
The Passage Home	182
CHAPTER XVII
Slavery	189
CHAPTER XVIII
Concluding Remarks	202
Postscript	210

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