A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . will be facilil ited by another canal from the city to lake Pontchartrain, tobe commenced next year; and I travelled from the city to the lake, four miles on arail-road, on which there are now locomotive engines. The citizens seem determinedto a
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . will be facilil ited by another canal from the city to lake Pontchartrain, tobe commenced next year; and I travelled from the city to the lake, four miles on arail-road, on which there are now locomotive engines. The citizens seem determinedto avoid the one hundred and ten miles of river navigation. At New Orleans, in the gay season, they have very pleasant, though expensiveamusements, called < Bals de Bouquet, given by the bachelors, but at the house of alady. The garcon who gives the dance, is distinguished by the title of king; and hisfirst care, when invested with the sovereignty, at the beginning of the season, is toselect among the ladies of his acquaintance a queeu to share his power, which he ueU* POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 307 south of Providence. During the summer months it is a place of fashion-able resort, being celebrated for the salubrity of its climate. It formerlypossessed considerable commerce, and contained more than nine thousand __ . - _—_— _—. Asylum at Newport. inhabitants; but during the revolution, it was a long time occupied by theenemy, and suffered severely. The principal street is a mile in length ;the houses have an antique appearance. The harbor is very safe, suffi- gates by crowning his fair partner with a wreath of flowers. At her house, and in hername, is the ball then given. After two or three quadrilles, the first queen rises fromher chair of state, and is conducted into the middle of the room by the king, whengracefully raising a wreath of flowers, which she hears in her hand, she places it onthe brow of a future king, (another baehe i I he. alter a low obei- sance, having fixed
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