Letter XII.—­Picolata.—­Beauty of the Season.—­The St. John’s.—­A
Hammock.—­Voyage from Charleston to Savannah.—­City of Savannah.—­Quoit
Club.—­A Negro Burial-Place.—­Curious Epitaphs.—­Bonaventure.—­Majestic
Avenues of Live-Oaks.—­Alligators.—­Black Creek.

Letter XIII.—­Woods of Florida.—­Anecdotes of the Florida War.—­Aspect of
St. Augustine.—­Its Streets.—­Former Appearance of the City.—­Orange
Groves.—­Fort of St. Mark.—­Palm Sunday.—­A Frenchman preaching in
Spanish.

Letter XIV.—­Climate of St. Augustine.—­Tampa Bay.—­Melons in
January.—­Insects in Southern Florida.—­Healthfulness of East Florida.—­A
Sugar Plantation.—­Island of St. Anastasia.—­Quarries of
Shell-Rock.—­Customs of the Mahonese.—­A Mahonese or Minorcan hymn.

Letter XV.—­Florida the “Poor Man’s Country.”—­Settlement of the Peninsula.—­The Indian War.—­Its Causes.—­Causes of the Peace.—­The Everglades.—­St. Mary’s in Georgia.—­Plague of Sand-Flies.—­Alligator Shooting.—­Tobacco Chewing.

Letter XVI.—­The Champlain Canal.—­Beauty of its Banks.—­Whitehall.—­ Canadian French.—­A Family setting out for the West.—­The Michigan Lay.—­ Vermont Scenery.

Letter XVII.—­Grasshoppers.—­White Clover.—­Domestic Arrangements of two unmarried Ladies.—­Canadian French Laborers.—­Quakers.—­A Pretty Mantua Maker.—­Anecdote told by a Quakeress.—­Walpole.—­Keene.—­A Family of healthy young Women.

Letter XVIII.—­A Voyage to Liverpool.—­Mountains of Wales.—­Growth of Liverpool.—­Aspect of the Place.—­Zoological Gardens.—­Cemetery among the Rocks.—­Ornamental Cultivation.—­Prince’s Park.—­Chester.—­Manchester.  —­Calico Printing.

Letter XIX.—­Edale in Derbyshire.—­A Commercial Traveller.—­Chapel-en-le-Frith.—­The Winnets.—­Mam Tor.—­Heathy Hills.—­The Lark.—­Caverns of the Peak of Derbyshire.—­Castle of the Peverils.—­People of Derbyshire.—­Matlock.—­Derby.

Letter XX.—­Works of Art.—­Power’s Greek Slave.—­Exhibition of the Royal Academy.—­Turner’s late Pictures.—­Webster.—­Thorburn.—­New Houses of Parliament.—­Artists in Water-Colors.

Letter XXI.—­The Parks of London.—­Their Extent.—­Want of Parks in New York.—­Sweeping of the Streets.—­Safety from Housebreaking.—­Beggars.—­ Increase of Poverty.

Letter XXII.—­Edinburg.—­The Old Town.—­The Castle.—­Solid Architecture of the New Town.—­Views from the different Eminences.—­Poverty in the Wynds and Alleys.—­Houses of Refuge for the Destitute.—­Night Asylums for the Houseless.—­The Free Church.—­The Maynooth Grant.—­Effect of Endowments.

Letter XXIII.—­Fishwomen of Newhaven.—­Frith of Forth.—­Stirling.—­ Callander.—­The Trosachs.—­Loch Achray.—­Loch Katrine.—­Loch Lomond.  —­Glenfalloch.—­Dumbarton.—­The Leven.

Letter XXIV.—­Glasgow.—­Its Annual Fair.—­Its Public Statues.—­The Free Church.—­Free Church College.—­Odd Subject of a Sermon.—­Alloway.—­Burns’s Monument.—­The Doon.—­The Sea.—­Burns’s Birthplace.—­The River Ayr.