Letter XXV.—­Voyage to Ireland.—­Ailsa Craig.—­County of Down.—­County of
Lowth.—­Difference in the Appearance of the Inhabitants.—­
Peat-Diggers.—­A Park.—­Samples of different Races of Men.—­Round
Towers.—­Valley of the Boyne.—­Dublin.—­Its Parks.—­O’Connell.—­The Repeal
Question.—­Wall, the Artist.—­Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Society.

Letter XXVI.—­Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.—­Humanity and Skill.—­Quiet
Demeanor of the Patients.—­Anecdotes of the Inmates.—­The Corn-law
Question.—­Coleman’s Improvement on the Piano.

Letter XXVII.—­Changes in Paris.—­Asphaltum Pavements.—­New and Showy
Buildings.—­Suppression of Gaming-Houses.—­Sunday Amusements.—­Physical
Degeneracy.—­Vanderlyn’s Picture of the Landing of Columbus.

Letter XXVIII.—­A Journey through the Netherlands.—­Brussels.—­Waterloo. 
—­Walloons and Flemings.—­Antwerp.—­Character of Flemish Art.—­The
Scheldt.—­Rotterdam.—­Country of Holland.—­The Hague.—­Scheveling.—­
Amsterdam.—­Broek Saardam.—­Utrecht.

Letter XXIX.—­American Artists abroad.—­Duesseldorf:  Leutze.—­German
Painters.—­Florence:  Greenough, Powers, Gray, G. L. Brown.—­Rome:  H. K.
Brown, Rossiter, Lang.

Letter XXX.—­Buffalo.—­The New Fort.—­Leopold de Meyer.—­Cleveland.—­
Detroit.

Letter XXXI.—­Trip from Detroit to Mackinaw.—­The Chippewa Tribe.—­The River St. Clair.—­Anecdote.—­Chippewa Village.—­Forts Huron and Saranac.—­Bob Low Island.—­Mackinaw.

Letter XXXII.—­Journey from Detroit to Princeton.—­Sheboygan.—­Milwaukie.  —­Chicago.—­A Plunge in the Canal.—­Aspect of the Country.

Letter XXXIII.—­Return to Chicago.—­Prairie-Hens.—­Prairie Lands of Lee County.—­Rock River District.

Letter XXXIV.—­Voyage to Sault Ste. Marie.—­Little Fort.—­Indian Women gathering Rice.—­Southport.—­Island of St. Joseph.—­Muddy Lake.—­Girdled Trees.

Letter XXXV.—­Falls of the St. Mary.—­Masses of Copper and Silver.—­Drunken Indians.—­Descent of the Rapids.—­Warehouses of the Hudson Bay Company.—­Canadian Half-breeds.—­La Maison de Pierre.—­Tanner the Murderer.

Letter XXXVI.—­Indians at the Sanlt.—­Madeleine Island.—­Indian Dancing-girls.—­Methodist Indians.—­Indian Families.—­Return to Mackinaw.

Letter XXXVII.—­The Straits of Mackinaw.—­American Fur Company.—­Peculiar Boats.—­British Landing.—­Battle-field.—­Old Mission Church.—­Arched Rock.

Letter XXXVIII.—­Excursion to Southern New Jersey.—­Easton.—­The Delaware.—­The Water Gap.—­Bite of a Copper-head snake.

Letter XXXIX.—­The Banks of the Pocano.—­Deer in the Laurel
Swamps.—­Cherry Hollow.—­The Wind Gap.—­Nazareth.—­Moravian Burying
Grounds.—­A Pennsylvania German.

Letter XL.—­Paint on Brick Houses.—­The New City of Lawrence.—­Oak Grove.

Letter XLI.—­Islands of Casco Bay.—­The Building of Ships.—­A Seal in the Kennebeck.—­Augusta.—­Multitude of Lakes.—­Appearances of Thrift.