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Tables of Contents for Letters from an American Farmer ; And, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
7
20
Albert E. Stone
Suggestions for Further Reading
27
2
A Note on the Text
29
6
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER
Advertisements
35
2
To the Abbe Raynal, F.R.S.
37
2
Introduction
39
12
On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer
51
15
What Is an American?
66
40
Description of the Island of Nantucket, with the Manners, Customs, Policy, and Trade of the Inhabitants
106
21
Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket
127
5
Description of the Island of Martha's Vineyard and of the Whale Fishery
132
12
Manners and Customs at Nantucket
144
11
Peculiar Customs at Nantucket
155
11
Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene
166
14
On Snakes; And on the Humming-bird
180
7
From Mr. Iw--n Al--z, a Russian Gentleman, Describing the Visit He Paid at My Request to Mr. John Bertram, the Celebrated Pennsylvanian Botanist
187
13
Distresses of a Frontier Man
200
31
SKETCHES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
A Snow-storm as It Affects the American Farmer
231
10
Ant-hill Town
241
9
Reflections on the Manners of the American
250
14
Thoughts of an American Farmer on Various Rural Subjects
264
57
Liberty of Worship
321
16
The English and the French Before the Revolution
337
5
The Man of Sorrows
342
11
On the Susquehanna; The Wyoming Massacre
353
28
History of Mrs. B.
381
11
The Frontier Woman
392
5
The American Belisarius
397
17
Landscapes
414
67
Index
481