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Literary Gazette." It is a very entire and comprehensive view of the United States, diligently collected by a man of observation."

Athenæum." While others have been content to give in general summaries the results of their ooservations, Mr. Buckingham goes deliberately through the States, treating of all, historically and statistically-of their rise and progress, their manufactures, trade, population, topography, fertility, resources, morals, manners. education, and so forth. Mr. Buckingham's volumes will be found a storehouse of knowledge."

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East India Telegraph." In Mr. Buckingham's America, the public possesses one of the most generally interesting works, descriptive of the New World, which has ever emanated from the press. The extensive geographical range of the country traversed by our experienced traveller-the multiplicity of subjects which have occupied his pen-his agreable style of composition-the ability and tact with which he has blended historical and statistical matter with bright delineations of manners and customs, the general topics dwelt on in cities and states-and, especially, the philanthropic purpose, in the prosecution of which Mr. Buckingham has gathered the stores of knowledge enumerated-combine to produce a book of travels containing literary ana unsurpassed for novelty, comprehensiveness, and interest, by any extant work."

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Bristol Mercury." Mr. Buckingham, too, did not 'steam' it through the country, and write 'flying sketches.' caught from the decks of steam-boats, or from the windows of railway carriages, the manners, habits, and customs of the people being picked up exclusively from the conversation of passengers by those modes of conveyance: but he took up his abode in the principal towns for months together. The result has been a work, not written to support any political or preconceived theory, and, in fact not dealing much in disquisitions or inferences, but comprising a vast mass of most valuable and interesting information, presented to the reader in a clear, unaffected, and judicious manner."

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THE SLAVE STATES

OF

AMERICA.

CHAP. I.

Embarkation at New York for Charleston-Delightful weather— Drunken crew-System pursued with respect to seamen-Beautiful prospect of the harbour and city of New York-Description of the voyage to Charleston-Penance of association with disagreeable passengers-Thunder, lightning, and rains off Cape Hatteras-Arrival at Charleston-Landing.

On Friday, the 11th of January, 1839, we embarked at New York, on board the packet-ship, Calhoun, for Charleston in South Carolina. The distance of this city from New York by land exceeds 700 miles; and as the bad state of the roads through the latter part of the route makes land-travelling disagreeable during the winter months, we were induced to prefer the sea voyage, though this also has its inconveniences at this season of the year. The ship in which we had taken our passage was 275 tons burthen, and had her cabins and dining-room under a poop-deck; two

of these cabins, with double berths in each, and separate accommodation for a man-servant, were assigned to us for 90 dollars passage-money.

The day was remarkably fine; the wind being light from the southward, the sun warm, the sky bright, and the general appearance like that of one of the finest days of September or October in England. It was, indeed, so warm, that the captain and pilot went without their jackets; and the shade was more agreeable to us all than the sun. We had no thermometer open, but I should conceive the heat to have been 75° at least, which was a powerful contrast to the state of the atmosphere a few days before, when the thermometer was at 6o only above zero. The pilot, indeed, said, that though he had followed his profession for more than twenty years in New York, he had never remembered so hot a day as this in January.

We hauled off from the wharf about eleven o'clock, and were towed down by a steam-vessel as far as the Narrows, (the usual charge for the hire of such steamvessels being ten dollars an hour,) where we began to make sail. This was, however, a work of some difficulty, as the crew were all intoxicated; some, indeed, were so drunk as to be wholly unfit for duty, and all were in a state of confusion and insubordination. The captain was obliged to assume a rigorous exercise of authority, to prevent a mutiny; and the greater part of the actual labour devolved upon his mates and himself. I learnt from the pilot that for years past it had been a rare case for a ship to sail from the harbour of New York, without the greater number of the crew being drunk; and he thought that this evil had increased rather than diminished of late.