Excerpt from The Stranger in America, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising Sketches of the Manners, Society, and National Peculiarities of the United States, in a Series of Letters to a Friend in Europe

Preliminary Remarks - Emperor Of China and his Biographer Modern Travellers My own manner of Estimating America - Institutions of this Country - My Long Resi dence In it - E¿'ects on the Mind Of a Summer in Phila delphia - Trade in Ice Poem of the Fredoniad.

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