The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States ; with biographical particulars of public characters ; hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade . and common glass, loaf sugar, tobacco, chocolate, and an immensequantity of playing cards, on which they counterfeit the English figures E 2 with iiO BREWERIES. with great exactness. The reader may judge of tlic propensity ofAmericans to the abominable spirit
The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States ; with biographical particulars of public characters ; hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade . and common glass, loaf sugar, tobacco, chocolate, and an immensequantity of playing cards, on which they counterfeit the English figures E 2 with iiO BREWERIES. with great exactness. The reader may judge of tlic propensity ofAmericans to the abominable spirit above-mentioned, in preference tothat agreeable and nutritious beverage, malt liquor, when he finds thatonly two breweries can barely be supported by this large town and itspopulous vicinity ;—in fact, by all New England, for I never heardof another brewery in the four states and one province which form it:namely, New Hampshire, Massachusets, Rhode Island, Connecticut,and the Province of Maine. The annexed view will convey an idea of the situation of Boston ;a town, noted as well for being one of the first settled by Europeans,as for its taking the lead in opposing the measures of the mother coun-try, which brought on a war, so long distressing to Americans, butwhich terminated in the acknowledgment of their independence. Iv 31 CHAP. III. EXTENT OF THE UNITED STATES.— PRESENT NUMBER OF INHABITANTS.— ACQUI-SITION OF LOUISIANA AND THE FLORIDAS.— CONJECTURES ON THE DURATIONOF THE FKREKAL GOVERNMENT.—STATISTICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITEDSTATES. 1 HE United States, according to an American geographer, are esti-mated to comprise upwards of a million square miles, or six hundredand forty million acres of land, exclusive of the lakes, and other largewaters of that country. This estimate was made previous to the pur-chase of Louisiana,* the extent of Avhich has never been accuratelydefined. Already a region too extensive to be subject to one generalgovernment, the people of
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