Travels through Canada and the United States of North America in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808
2 Volume Set
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
- Author: John Lambert
- Date Published: July 2011
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108033282
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In the early nineteenth century, the writings of John Lambert renewed the British public's fascination with the landscapes, peoples, flora, and fauna of the Canadian colonies and the young independent United States. First published in 1811, and ultimately running into four editions, this two-volume work is packed with closely-observed descriptions, facts and figures about colonial life, as well as lively anecdotes. The 'corrected and improved' second edition reissued here was published in 1814. It promised to 'enable the British reader to form a just opinion of the Canadian colonies, and to appreciate the character of the neighbouring enemies'. A trained painter, Lambert illustrated his account with lithographs based on his own watercolours. Volume 1 focuses on Newfoundland and Quebec, describing European traders, Jesuit missionaries and Native Americans, while Volume 2 contrasts the markets, hotels and pleasure gardens of New York, Charleston and Boston with the conditions endured by Black slaves.
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- Date Published: July 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108033282
- length: 1170 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 68 mm
- weight: 1.5kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
1. Passage to the Grand Bank
2. Hire of houses at Quebec
3. Origin of the name of Quebec
4. Chateau St. Louis
5. Upper Town of Quebec
6. Curious jargon in the market place
7. Climate of Lower Canada
8. Soil of Lower Canada
9. Population of Lower Canada
10. Handsome children
11. Government of Lower Canada
12. Commerce of Lower Canada
13. Trade between Canada and the United States
14. Society of the towns in Lower Canada
15. Amusements and diversions
16. Literature, arts, and sciences
17. Roman Catholic clergy
18. Aborigines of North America
19. Face of Lower Canada
20. Canadian animals
21. Forest trees
22. Leave Quebec
23. Town of Three Rivers
24. Leave Three Rivers. Volume 2:
25. Journey to New York
26. Leave Skenesborough
27. Boarding-house
28. Places of worship
29. Number of deaths at New York
30. Leave New York for Charleston
31. Population of Charleston
32. Servants at Charleston
33. Legislature of South Carolina
34. Arts, sciences, and literature of South Carolina
35. Climate of South Carolina
36. Journey from Charleston to Savannah on foot
37. Savannah
38. Leave Savannah
39. Leave Charleston
40. Arrival at Boston
41. Biographical notices and anecdotes of some of the most eminent public characters in the United States
42. Leave Boston.
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