age down the
river, in a skiff. The account of means of early navigation is
graphic.

_Flint, Timothy._ Recollections of the last ten years. Boston, 1826.

There is no better account of boats, and river life generally,
in 1814-15, the time of Flint's voyage.

_Fearon, Henry Bradshaw._ Sketches of America [1817]. London, 1819.

_Palmer, John._ Journal of travels in the United States of North
America [1817]. London, 1818.

_Evans, Estwick._ A pedestrian tour [1818] of four thousand miles
through the Western states and territories. Concord, N. H., 1819.

_Birkbeck, Morris._ Notes on a journey in America, from the coast of
Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. London, 1818.

The author traveled, in 1817, by light wagon from Richmond to
Pittsburg; and from Pittsburg to Cincinnati by horseback. This
book, interesting for economic conditions, together with
the author's "Letters from Illinois," did much to inspire
emigration to Illinois from England. His English colony, at
English Prairie, Ill., was much visited by travelers of the
period.

_Faux, W._ Journal of a tour to the United States [in 1819].

Excellent pictures of American life and agricultural methods,
by an English gentleman farmer. Attacks Birkbeck's roseate
views.

_Ogden, George W._ Letters from the West, comprising a tour through
the Western country [1821], and a residence of two summers in the
States of Ohio and Kentucky. New Bedford, Mass., 1823.

_Welby, Adlard._ A visit to North America and the English settlements
in Illinois. London, 1821.

The author went by horseback, occasionally touching the river
towns.

_Beltrami, J. C._ Pilgrimage in Europe and America. London, 1828, 2
vols.

In Vol. II the author describes a steamboat journey in 1823,
from Pittsburg to the mouth.

_Hall, James._ Letters from the West. London, 1828.

Valuable for scenery, manners, and customs, and anecdotes of
early Western settlement.

_Anonymous._ The Americans as they are; described by a tour through
the valley of the Mississippi. London, 1828.

_Trollope, Mrs._ [Frances M.]. Domestic manners of the Americans.
London and New York, 1832.

A lively caricature, the precursor of Dickens' "American
Notes." Mrs. Trollope's voyages on the Ohio were in 1828 and
1830.

_Vigne, Godfrey T._ Six months in America. London, 1832, 2 vols.

_Hamilton, T._ Men and manners in Am