A narrative of travels in the United States of America, with some account of American manners and polity, and advice to emigrants and travellers

William O'Bryan

1836

Contents

• er in the pulpit Prophetic warning A chapelfair kiss: 219
• Danger in Harbour Sets sail for England Caught a Shark: 299
• Visits Chester A grateful inscription on a wall Nixons pro: 309
• Conjecture of the original peopling of America by A Cat: 315
• Observations on the mounds in America: 323
• Recommendations and advice to emigrants On securing: 337
• Rules government c Duty on landing and No 1830 c: 343
• Money and Currency Testimonials recommended: 352
• Rates of Postage Newspaper do Number of Postoffices: 358
• Religious and Literary Institutions: 360
• Commerce of the United States: 368
• Counties and Townships in the State of New York List: 374
• A Table of roads and distances of places: 382
• An extract of Tariff: 391
• An extract of act of Congress relative to vessels passen: 400

Popular passages

Page 232 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.‎

Page 15 - Fear ye not me ? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?‎

Page 15 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...‎

Page 231 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.‎

Page 232 - He has erected a multitude of new offices ; and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.‎

Page 317 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.‎

Page 231 - The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires...‎

Page 231 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.‎

Page 394 - ... wages are, or may be, recovered. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the captain or master of any ship or vessel arriving in the United States, or any of the territories thereof, from any foreign place whatever, at the same time that he delivers a manifest of the cargo, and, if there be...‎

Page 394 - Atlantic ocean, shall, at the time of leaving the last port from whence she sails, have on board, well secured under deck, at least sixty gallons of water, one hundred pounds of salted flesh meat, and one hundred pounds of wholesome ship bread...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: A narrative of travels in the United States of America, with some account of American manners and polity, and advice to emigrants and travellers
• Author: William O'Bryan
• Published: 1836
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: May 8, 2007