Sketches of America Author:Henry Bradshaw Fearon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REPORT FORWARDED. 51 " a visit from you, previous to your return to " Europe. J. P. De Wint. Fishkill-Ianding, State of New York." % The present ... more »report will be taken by Mr. Berthele, of the house of Berthed and Reeves, of Montreal; a gentle- man who is going to pursue nis medical studies in London, and who lias politely consented to be the bearer of this. He sails in the Amity, for Liverpool, on the 4th September. chapter{Section 4SECOND REPORT. Courts of Law in New York. Sloop of War Ontario. Slavery ; Aneddote of a blacTg Barber. Visit to Mr. Cob- . deft. Soil and Agriculture of Long Island. Prices of Stock, and of Land. Man-Hatten, or York Island. Country Houses on Sale ; Prices Newark, in Jersey. FishMll. Mr. De Wint's Property. American Servants, Neuiburgh. No National Monument to Washington. American Emigration to Canada. Cotton Manufactory. Return to New York. Academy of Fine Arts. Mechanical Panorama. Theatre. Shamrock Society. What Classes of Emigrants are likely to succeed, and what -are not. Newburgh, on the Banks of the Hudson. In my last report, conveyed by the politeness of Mr. Berthel6, I gave particulars of various trades and professions. Their length prevented me from entering into those minor details, which perhaps may not be without their utility. My residence in this country has yet been but short; and whatever may have been my exertions and enquiries, I am not yet sufficiently familiarized with the habits and character of the people, to feel confident in my impressions. Minute traits and occurrences apparently trifling, frequently attract my notice; as I conceive it is by means of these, that we are frequently best CITY-HALL. 5S enabled to form a correct estimate, either of a...« less