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II –       At the close of the first number of this Journal of a Tour from Boston to   New-York, Albany, &c. I was sailing, on the 20-th of Aug. 1831, in the   Steamboat Boston, through Long Island Sound.  The weather, which had   continued favorable till after we had passed Point Judith, had towards night   given us some uneasiness on account of a thick fog and a pretty stiff breeze,   and we were now sitting in the cabin after tea, and regretting that we were   likely to be deprived of the enjoyment of viewing from the deck the splendor   of a full moon, in an unclouded sky, shedding its mild light on the broad   expanse of waters, and of listening, - in a situation where everything would   thus conspire to heighten the power of melody, - to the music of the Band on   board.  The heat had been excessive on shore through the day; but we were   now glad to wrap our cloaks round us, to keep out the chill and dampness of   the sea air, and the foggy atmosphere with which we had for some hours   been surrounded.  Still"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7fe8add8-e7e3-4468-81c1-6d0ff237d21d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"10","height":3724,"width":2306,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/08112956-ad82-4a82-b360-64e7ff11fce3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/08112956-ad82-4a82-b360-64e7ff11fce3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3724,"width":2306},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_2","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the striking effect produced by the performance of a tune of the former   description immediately after that of one of the latter.  People will listen, and   advise to listen, though they may affect to despise it, to a slow and solemn   march, and will hear it to the conclusion in silence and with almost   breathless interest.  Let Yankee Doodle then be struck up, which in such   cases is often done, and there is hardly a man, woman, or child, but will feel   a strong inclination to jump up and dance with eagerness; and if this cannot   be done, the delight which is felt will be manifested in various ways, and   will be seen to be much more intense than when the merry has not been   preceded by the melancholy music.  I will leave philosophers and   metaphysicians to settle the cause of this difference in the effect produced,   and return to my colored friends the musicians on board the Boston.  –   Music by moon-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/08112956-ad82-4a82-b360-64e7ff11fce3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"11","height":3726,"width":2307,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/014d81fa-4be1-482b-a2f4-5855f82b6211/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/014d81fa-4be1-482b-a2f4-5855f82b6211","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3726,"width":2307},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_3","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"light! — there is something romantic in the very expression.  It speaks of a   delicious, a deep-felt but placid thrill of joy, called forth by the union of   beauty and sublimity in external nature, with choicest strains of melting, of   subduing harmony.  And in its reality, there is power to infuse the spirit of   Poetry into the hearts of the very votaries of Mammon.  But it is useless to   attempt to describe its effect; for were I to do so, I should make use of   exaggerated language, or what could at least appear so to an unexcited   reader, and should very likely represent myself as transformed, in   imagination, into one rapturous strain of music; our vessel as a moonbeam,   on which I, the concentration of all this ravishing melody, was borne   dancing, with the speed of thought, and the exultation of an unfettered spirit,   from wave to wave and from sea to sea.  But if any such wild fancies did for   a time have sway, I was undeceived in the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/014d81fa-4be1-482b-a2f4-5855f82b6211/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_4","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"12","height":3707,"width":2327,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/efeaee19-d0af-48f9-9e48-23801f712a9a/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/efeaee19-d0af-48f9-9e48-23801f712a9a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3707,"width":2327},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_4","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"course of the evening; for the south wind was rather chilly, and convinced   me, by various disagreeable sensations, that I was still in the body, and that   that body was most uncomfortably cold.  I soon began again to see, also, and   to understand, that instead of listening to the “music of the Spheres,” I was   sitting by the side of a pack of ragged niggers, who were blowing and   beating on divers instruments, on board the Steamboat Boston, Capt   Comstock, on her passage through L.I. Sound, Saturday evening, Aug. 23,   1831 — And thus ended our Saturday Evening Concert — or rather, thus   ended my share in it; for it was now nearly half past nine o’clock, and, cold   and uneasy from sitting so long in the night air, I looked a good night to the   moon, and also to our sable minstrels, who were still busily engaged in   charming the night and the ocean, with their melodious sounds, - and bent   my steps in company with Mr. Hull, to-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/efeaee19-d0af-48f9-9e48-23801f712a9a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_5","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":3660,"width":2308,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a6afe47b-8af0-4998-97f7-41996ff55b15/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a6afe47b-8af0-4998-97f7-41996ff55b15","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3660,"width":2308},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_5","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"wards the cabin.  The cold and damp evening air had not these, we found,   yet displaced altogether the heated atmosphere of the day; but had so   mingled with it as to render the temperature very agreeable.  We found the   waiters were busily employed in putting up little field bedsteads on the floor   of the cabin, as there were not berths enough for all the passengers.  When   these beds were prepared, a strip of white paper with a number written on it   was placed on each — the numbers continuing on from those of the berths.    Each passenger had his number given him when he paid his passage; and   those, therefore, who paid last, were obliged to take up with these open beds.    Our numbers were 46 and 47 of the berths, which we found to be the nearest   on one side to the wheels and machinery.  Mr. H. chose to upper one, and we   soon undressed, placing our clothes on the little shelf inside, and crawled   into"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a6afe47b-8af0-4998-97f7-41996ff55b15/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_6","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"14","height":3663,"width":2294,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/94bad029-d668-4e32-be45-8afe6cbfb39a/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/94bad029-d668-4e32-be45-8afe6cbfb39a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3663,"width":2294},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_6","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"bed.   I found it very agreeable to lie down after being tossed about so much   through the day; but as to sleeping, I was pretty well convinced I should   enjoy but little of it for that night.  The noise was not only very great, but the   immediate vicinity of the great wheel created a constant jarring, and the   motion of the boat from the waves was also very perceptible.  I ascertained,   too, that the boiler was just above my feet, which made the place rather too   warm for comfort.  There would be no danger of cold feet in such a   situation, even in December, and I should like exceedingly well to have such   an accommodation, unaccompanied, however, with the disagreeable noise   and motion, at the bottom of my bed through the winter season, - for I had   only to stretch out my legs and touch the bottom of my feet to the wall, to   give them as much warmth as they could well bear. – I had not lain many   minutes, before Mr. Hull came tumbling out of"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/94bad029-d668-4e32-be45-8afe6cbfb39a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_7","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"15","height":3689,"width":2291,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/03c968d5-5ad2-4303-8e78-d272bb72fb86/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/03c968d5-5ad2-4303-8e78-d272bb72fb86","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3689,"width":2291},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_7","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"his berth, and jumped down past me, quite in a rage.  He had found a warmer   place than mine, for he could not bear his hand on the wall at his feet and   over his head, and he could stand it no longer.  He applied to the steward,   who had a bed placed upon one of the tables, and Mr. H. stretched himself   upon it.  I was obliged to keep both my curtains undrawn, to let in the air,   and in this way I subjected myself to another inconvenience, almost as great   as the noise and jarring, and that was the light from the chandeliers and   lamps which were burning in different parts of the cabin.  I composed   myself, however, as well as I could, and though I could not procure any   sleep, I endeavored to rest.  The waiters were for a long time busy in passing   backwards and forwards, and the passengers, one after another, who had not   already retired to bed, dropped in, and repaired to their berths or their"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/03c968d5-5ad2-4303-8e78-d272bb72fb86/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_8","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"16","height":3685,"width":2363,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7e2427f7-c049-4bdf-ae0c-a52086899b00/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7e2427f7-c049-4bdf-ae0c-a52086899b00","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3685,"width":2363},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_8","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"more exposed beds on the cabin floor.  Of the four annoyances with which I   was assailed, viz. noise, motion, heat and light, two of them, the first   mentioned, I could neither shut out nor forget.  The two latter could be   avoided only by turns: for when I turned my face from the lights towards the   back wall, the heat from the fiery furnace, through the partition, was almost   suffocating; and by enjoying again the fresh air that was circulating in the   cabin, the blazing lights flared full in my face.  In this manner I lay during a   period which I was pretty well convinced must be long enough for a summer   night.  I therefore began rather impatiently to thrust out my head into the   cabin, as far as a long neck would admit, and to gaze through the sky-light in   search of dawn.  But dissimilar as the lights of the two great luminaries are   in ordinary cases, there are times in which they may be mistaken"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7e2427f7-c049-4bdf-ae0c-a52086899b00/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_9","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"17","height":3698,"width":2295,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5d69cde-d1e9-4631-8cbd-3fd093f21df2/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5d69cde-d1e9-4631-8cbd-3fd093f21df2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3698,"width":2295},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_9","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"for each other without the person who is thus deceived [          ] the charge of   either ignorance or lunacy.  Considering that this is the case, therefore, I may   not fear to acknowledge that I was most grossly deceived in regard to this   matter.  I had just been for a few moments, I believe, in a kind of half   slumber, when, on looking up, I imagined the light had much increased since   closing my eyes.  The lamps, too, appeared to burn dimly, as though in the   midst of light from a brighter luminary, or in consequence of their having   burned through the long hours of the night, and exhausted, when it was no   longer needed, their allotted supply of oil.  I laid my head down for a few   moments, and then gazed again, and I thought I could plainly perceive that   the light still increased.  I was desirous of being on deck as soon after day-  light as I could; for I had yesterday looked upon the face of the water under   a meridian sun, and"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5d69cde-d1e9-4631-8cbd-3fd093f21df2/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_10","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"18","height":3675,"width":2303,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4518b7e2-9017-4402-8593-5a0601a01478/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4518b7e2-9017-4402-8593-5a0601a01478","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3675,"width":2303},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_10","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"in the evening by moonlight, and I felt anxious to behold also, in the same   situation, the effects of day-break and sunrise.  I arose, therefore, from my   sleepless couch, dressed myself as silently and expeditiously as possible,   and, throwing my cloak over my shoulders, hastened above.  No one was   stirring in the cabin.  The floor, I found, was nearly covered with beds, on   which were stretched the bodies of a part of our worthy passengers, all   apparently in sound and invigorating sleep.  No vile snoring, however,   disturbed the night watchers and the peace of honest and well-disposed men;   for the ceaseless music of a steam engine drowns all such discordant and   unbecoming noises.  I wound my way along a narrow passage between the   beds, stepping lightly over the carpeted floor, (a precaution, however,   altogether unnecessary), and ascended the cabin stairs.  Here a new set of   sleepers awaited me; for our black friends"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4518b7e2-9017-4402-8593-5a0601a01478/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_11","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"19","height":3655,"width":2293,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b6a3cd96-688b-4700-bbdb-695fb40108fa/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b6a3cd96-688b-4700-bbdb-695fb40108fa","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3655,"width":2293},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_11","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"of the National Band were not furnished with beds below, and were   therefore under necessity of appropriating, instead, anything upon deck   which they could make answer their purpose.  The long pile of baggage at   the head of the stairs, afforded them the most comfortable facilities, and here   they were strewed in every direction, and in the most admirable disorder.    On the top of my trunk reposed the unwieldly wooley head of a fat African,   enjoying, apparently, in happy dreams, visions of delight unknown to all but   the lovers of music.  At the side of this sable scatterer of sweet sounds, but at   right angles with him, lay stretched another of these marvellous melody-  makers, with his head on the hard side of a traveling trunk, his hat on his   face, and his feet loosely wandering in no particular direction, but seeming   to seek the floor.  On going up the stairs which led to the upper deck, I   turned to look again at this heap of baggage, and"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b6a3cd96-688b-4700-bbdb-695fb40108fa/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_12","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2","height":3702,"width":2315,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3fd276c3-fe39-47a9-919d-d023d7b00863/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3fd276c3-fe39-47a9-919d-d023d7b00863","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3702,"width":2315},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_12","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"we were anxious to go upon deck, and Mr. Hull left the cabin to learn the   state of the weather, and ascertain if we should probably enjoy ourselves in   sitting on deck during the evening, and honoring the Black Band with our   presence.  He soon came down again, and astonished me by saying that the   fog had entirely disappeared, there were no clouds in the sky, and the moon   was shining in all its brightness.  I had so firmly decided it in my own mind   that we were to have a dark and boisterous night, that I was not easily   convinced to the contrary.  However, it was a question which could be easily   settled, and as Mr. H. was anxious to have me leave the cabin immediately   and enjoy the delightful prospect above, I repaired upon deck.  The weather   had indeed changed: with the exception of a pretty high and rather chilly   breeze from the South, all the former unpleasant indications had vanished,   and the mild radiance of moonshine alone pervaded sky and water.    Wrapping my cloak still"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3fd276c3-fe39-47a9-919d-d023d7b00863/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_13","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"20","height":3650,"width":2285,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a633a840-6a05-4523-9a6a-f7550bd76c8b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a633a840-6a05-4523-9a6a-f7550bd76c8b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3650,"width":2285},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_13","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"here a protruding arm, and there a pendant leg, almost convinced me, in the   dim light of the moon, that it was a living, breathing mass of dark humanity.    – The upper deck was not wholly deserted, for I found several of the   passengers were sitting there, some of them conversing, and others sleeping   in their chairs and on the benches.  Among the latter I recognized a ragged   negro who beat on the bass drum the day and evening before.  He was about   the same shape and size as the instrument on which he performed, and this   may account for his choosing a hard bench here to lie upon in preference to   the trunks below, on which his companions were so comfortably reposing;   for the difference in the solidity of the two substances could not certainly be   perceptible to bones defended as his were, and he could here enjoy the   comfort of a fresh, cool"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a633a840-6a05-4523-9a6a-f7550bd76c8b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_14","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"21","height":3675,"width":2272,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/09aa88b9-f77f-45a6-9e61-5374ed1779f3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/09aa88b9-f77f-45a6-9e61-5374ed1779f3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3675,"width":2272},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_14","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"breeze, which must have been very agreeable to such a man of warm flesh   and blood.  – As soon as I had glanced at the company thus scattered over   the deck, I looked abroad for the daylight which I expected was dawning and   brightening in the east.  I discovered it, as I thought, though not exactly in   the direction which I had supposed to be the proper place for it.  Still there it   was, plainly perceptible, and if not quite so bright as I had seen it on land;   and a little north of where I imagined the east to be, yet it was plain I had but   to wait awhile and the former difficulty would be removed — and as to the   latter, every body knows that he flour points of the compass are strangely   intermingled in the mind of a person away from home.  So I pulled my cloak   tightly around me, for the air was uncomfortably cold, and laid myself down,   as well as I could, on the seat by the railing of the deck, thinking that, as the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/09aa88b9-f77f-45a6-9e61-5374ed1779f3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_15","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"22","height":3683,"width":2333,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3e498b39-04d8-4537-9723-35f4eb32de71/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3e498b39-04d8-4537-9723-35f4eb32de71","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3683,"width":2333},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_15","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"light of day increased, I should have an opportunity of viewing the splendors   of the approach and appearance of the sun.  I laid very comfortably for about   half an hour, without really sleeping, but occasionally dropping for a minute,   as I had previously done in my hammock, into a kind of a doze.  I then   began to feel uneasy by reason of the hardness of my couch; and on looking   again towards the east, precisely the same appearance met my view as when   I came upon deck — dawn had not progressed at all.  I then took a chair,   carried it behind the little room on the fore part of the deck in which the   helmsman attends to his duties, and seated myself in it, placing my feet on   the railing which protects the skylights, and leaning back against the said   room.  Here I thought I would wait for day, and in the meantime try to   procure some sleep.  I passed another half hour in the same manner as   before, being disturbed, however, by the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3e498b39-04d8-4537-9723-35f4eb32de71/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_16","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"23","height":3674,"width":2282,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7aa2e1e1-fce2-4961-8486-4a1412163dfb/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7aa2e1e1-fce2-4961-8486-4a1412163dfb","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3674,"width":2282},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_16","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"men who supplied the furnace with wood, who were engaged through the   night in wheeling it from a place assigned for it over the wheels on the upper   deck, to the scuttle which conducted down to the lower regions.  – I began   now to be pretty well convinced that there must be a mistake somewhere.    Daylight would not remain an hour in the east in this manner, without   making any progress, unless all the laws which govern the transmission of   light, and the rotation of the earth on its axis, were different in Long Island   Sound from those in the Bay State, or else had undergone the process of   nullification.  I must therefore account for the luminous appearance in a   certain part of the horizon on some other principle than that of daybreak.    Having come to this conclusion, I was not long in deciding that the aurora   borealis was the cause of all the difficulty, and that I had been sitting for an   hour and gazing at a"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7aa2e1e1-fce2-4961-8486-4a1412163dfb/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_17","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"24","height":3672,"width":2309,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/45770c78-8c33-4902-bbac-b9a9380f07e8/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/45770c78-8c33-4902-bbac-b9a9380f07e8","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3672,"width":2309},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_17","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"northern light, probably in the middle of the night, in the expectation that the   sun was to make his appearance in that unnatural direction and at that   unreasonable hour.  I therefore took up my line of march, in quick time, for   the cabin, in order again to go to bed, and endeavor to compose myself to   sleep.  I passed by, in descending, though not without a slight shudder, the   pokerish-looking pile of niggers already described, and found myself, in a   very short time, again stretched at my ease in my now comfortable   hammock.  I soon dropped into a sounder sleep than I had before enjoyed,   though it was by no means a deep one.  It might have become both sound   and refreshing, had I not again been disturbed; for everything seemed to   conspire to interrupt the progress and completion of even a brief slumber.    The sleep-murderer this time was Mr. Hull, who I found, on awaking,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/45770c78-8c33-4902-bbac-b9a9380f07e8/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_18","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"25","height":3680,"width":2302,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a28d82d-2afa-44fc-ba52-5b9fa52e5982/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a28d82d-2afa-44fc-ba52-5b9fa52e5982","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3680,"width":2302},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_18","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"very earnestly engaged in shaking my body and limbs in various directions,   and calling upon me, in the most beseeching terms, to arise and go upon   deck, for that it was five o’clock, that the sun would soon be up, and that he   wished to point out to me the many beautiful prospects at the entrance and   on the inside of the harbor of New-York.  Of course I could have no   objection to a request so reasonable, for I was as desirous of looking at   everything worth seeing as he was to have me; but still, having been twice   imposed upon already during one short night, I was desirous of avoiding it a   third time, and I therefore inquired of Mr. H. if he was correct as to the hour.    I had been wandering about the deck, I told him, a long while, waiting for   morning, and that I had returned, as it appeared to me, but a few minutes   ago, and was now just beginning to enjoy something which bore a slight-  resemblance"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a28d82d-2afa-44fc-ba52-5b9fa52e5982/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_19","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"26","height":3658,"width":2312,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ad010ced-ce9a-419c-897b-ec6b154ca68a/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ad010ced-ce9a-419c-897b-ec6b154ca68a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3658,"width":2312},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_19","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"to sleep.  He had looked at his watch, he said, and thought he could not be   mistaken, and the night, besides, had been long enough in all conscience.  At   my request, however, he again drew out his watch, and it was half past two   to a minute!  Mr. H. returned to his bed, complaining bitterly as he went of   the misery of rolling about on a table in the middle of the floor; and I turned   over, laughing at our mistakes, and endeavored to procure another nap.    After some time I succeeded, and for an hour or so I enjoyed more repose   than during the whole of the previous part of the night.  When dawn really   came, however, I was wide awake, and in a short time up and dressed.  As it   was Sunday morning, and I wished to look a little decent in making my first   appearance in New-York at such a time, I was desirous that my beard, which   was a little longer than it should be, might be"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ad010ced-ce9a-419c-897b-ec6b154ca68a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_20","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"27","height":3662,"width":2302,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f61a75ed-8429-46c1-9667-48253251143e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f61a75ed-8429-46c1-9667-48253251143e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3662,"width":2302},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_20","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"taken off, which was done by the barber on board.  I then went on deck and   the sun rose in a bright sky; but ere he had attained the height when he could   be said to “flame on the forehead of the morning sky,” thick clouds obscured   his growing brightness, and cast a gloom over the waves, which had just   been glowing and sparkling beneath a blaze of light.  And this was Sabbath   Morning; though there was little, either in the elements around us, or in the   appearance of the boat, or in the countenances and occupations of the   persons on board, to harmonize with the calm and peaceful rest so   appropriate to that sacred morning.  The south wind was boisterous — rather   more so than on the preceding day, and the surface of the water was of   course in agitated motion.  A veil of dark clouds was spread from horizon to   horizon, shutting out the newly-risen sun and the thousand beauties which   accompany the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f61a75ed-8429-46c1-9667-48253251143e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_21","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"28","height":3688,"width":2297,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab311f44-e14f-456c-95e7-168995b05e89/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab311f44-e14f-456c-95e7-168995b05e89","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3688,"width":2297},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_21","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"“brightness of his coming.”  But what need is there of external agency to   rouse the contemplative and devout spirit to adoration and praise!  Though   we might not be listeners to nature’s own melody — that of the feathered   songsters of the grove; though the winds and waves were not hushed into   silence; though no matin hymn, from holy human lips, fell upon our ears;   and though we were urged forward by means and for purposes that had   nothing in them either inspiring or sacred, - yet were we not debarred from   looking up, in adoration, to Him whose day it was: and one silent and brief   petition from the heart, amid all these outward disadvantages, might ascend   to heaven, might reach the ear of omniscience, and receive equal favor with   the morning sacrifice from the family altar, or from    “The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault.   Where pealing anthems swell the notes of praise.”"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab311f44-e14f-456c-95e7-168995b05e89/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_22","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"29","height":3676,"width":2255,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/97e44bb8-32b4-438d-9da7-b71dddd8c778/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/97e44bb8-32b4-438d-9da7-b71dddd8c778","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3676,"width":2255},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_22","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Shortly after sunrise we passed the Mardenough, a steamboat from Hartford,   and bound to New-York.  She was a much smaller boat than the Boston, and   the velocity with which the latter shot by her gave her almost the appearance   of being stationary.     Land could now be seen on both sides of us — Long Island to the east,   and the continent — a part of New-York State — to the west.  It was,   however, as yet distant, and little could be seen upon it except here and there   a lighthouse.  But as we drew nearer the City of New-York, the East River   — as that part of the sea between the island and the continent is called —  became narrower, and the prospect began to grow rich and interesting.  That   on the east presented little but one long line of nearly level land, its surface   occasionally covered with forest trees, and sometimes with fields of corn,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/97e44bb8-32b4-438d-9da7-b71dddd8c778/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_23","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"3","height":3703,"width":2294,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cb754a7b-8183-47b5-b850-9913f93e8c4b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cb754a7b-8183-47b5-b850-9913f93e8c4b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3703,"width":2294},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_23","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"closer about me, I took my seat on the upper deck, where many of the   passengers were also seated, and looked abroad on the splendid and to me   novel scene which presented itself.  Its beauty was greatly heightened by   contrast with the unpleasant weather and dreary prospects which had so   recently given place to it — for we are often in this life gathering the manna   of happiness, when we imagine ourselves in the midst of evil; and vainly   think we are treasuring up only sorrow and anguish while we are reaping joy   and gladness.  In speaking of an incident similar to the above, though a   much more striking one, that Prince of Poets, Professor Wilson, represents   the happiness experienced as far beyond that which dwelt in Paradise; and   then adds: -    Imagination, dreaming of the life  Before Sin brought the Fall, still misses these  The joy of grief, nor understands delight  Without the mournful sanctity of tears.  But, in this world of ours, this world of woe,  Lo!  Bliss is born within a breaking heart,  And therefore it is Bliss."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cb754a7b-8183-47b5-b850-9913f93e8c4b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_24","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"30","height":3667,"width":2292,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8231fe9-e9e1-48f1-aabd-5b70ea6348ea/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8231fe9-e9e1-48f1-aabd-5b70ea6348ea","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3667,"width":2292},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_24","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"or grass, or vegetables.  On the west, the scene was more varied; and its   variety and beauty increased as we sailed down the narrowing river, and   came nearer to the shore.  Many elegant country seats were scattered around   on the more elevated spots, and were surrounded with extensive farms, with   their gardens and orchards, all apparently in the highest state of cultivation.    Many parts of the land bordering on the river were covered with trees, the   leaves of which were of a green uncommonly rich and beautiful; at least they   had that appearance to me — perhaps on account of the heat of August   having in some degree withered the bloom of the New-England foliage   which I had so recently looked upon.  Vessels and boats, of all sizes and   shapes, grew more and more numerous as we drew nearer the city; and it   was amusing"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e8231fe9-e9e1-48f1-aabd-5b70ea6348ea/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_25","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"31","height":3645,"width":2270,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e05bc4e9-368e-4032-b959-575d3a93478b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e05bc4e9-368e-4032-b959-575d3a93478b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3645,"width":2270},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_25","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"to see with what haste they all quitted the centre of the river as the Boston   approached, fearing to be near her as she passed with her threatening   velocity.  It was now nearly seven o’clock, and it had been for some time a   matter of conversation and of some anxiety among part of the passengers,   whether we were to be furnished with a breakfast on board.  Some were of   opinion that as we were likely to arrive in New-York a half an hour or an   hour earlier than the steamboat usually arrived, the Captain would turn it to   his advantage by giving us only two meals on the passage, and set us ashore   with out a breakfast, on account of its being too early in the morning to   commence eating and drinking.  Others replied that it was always customary   to give three meals, let the boat arrive what time in the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e05bc4e9-368e-4032-b959-575d3a93478b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_26","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"32","height":3653,"width":2308,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dcc5381c-c027-4ff3-9e31-e1cfbecb7102/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dcc5381c-c027-4ff3-9e31-e1cfbecb7102","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3653,"width":2308},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_26","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"morning she would, and that the Captain would not dare to land us thus   fasting, as he would most assuredly hear of it in a manner that would mortify   and injure him.  We therefore waited patiently for the sound of the bell that   would summon us below — our hungry appetites craving for breakfast,   while our delighted eyes regretted leaving the increasing loveliness that was   now smiling in the prospect around us.  But mortal man must eat; and   though when the breakfast bell was rung I regretted quitting for a moment   the rich banquet on which my eyes were feasting, yet on entering the cabin I   found a feast of a more substantial nature, rendered doubly tempting by the   light fare to which a severe headach confined me the preceding evening, and   in consequence of being up and losing my sleep"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dcc5381c-c027-4ff3-9e31-e1cfbecb7102/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_27","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"33","height":3659,"width":2298,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f43fb501-f422-475e-9a25-32df42c783a8/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f43fb501-f422-475e-9a25-32df42c783a8","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3659,"width":2298},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_27","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"for so large a part of the night. I therefore sat down, “nothing loth,” to the   table which was smoking with everything appropriate, and, no less loth,   partook freely of the delicious fare.  There were fish, served up in every   variety of style, including among the rest — a clam pie; beef-steaks;   different kinds of bread, hot cold, and toasted; coffee; green and black tea;   &c. &c.  The coffee was contained in urns at short distances on the table,   and was drawn from them by the turning of a silver cock.  The tea was on   another table, and was furnished by the waiters to those who wished it.  But   none of the passengers, especially those of us who had never before sailed   down the East River, were disposed to sit long at our meal, anxiously as we   had waited for it.  It was therefore despatched in"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f43fb501-f422-475e-9a25-32df42c783a8/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_28","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"34","height":3677,"width":2310,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9ceda843-2d91-41dc-a721-5496389668f6/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9ceda843-2d91-41dc-a721-5496389668f6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3677,"width":2310},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_28","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"in haste, and we were soon upon deck again.  On my way thither, I came   across our old friend Jack the sailor, who had afforded us so much   amusement the day before on the road from Boston to Providence.  I   congratulated him on having arrived so near the end of his journey, and to a   place where he would be likely to find employment in his profession.  Yes,   he said, New York was the place for him. There was but little business   comparatively done in Boston; and besides they were getting there too much   into the cold water line for him.  For his part he wanted his glass of grog, he   said.  He knew that, after being out on the night watch, in a cold storm, it   was good for him, before throwing himself into his hammock.  He was not   like some of them, he continued, who would steal and lie; and he did not   believe that,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9ceda843-2d91-41dc-a721-5496389668f6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_29","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"35","height":3643,"width":2300,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c06020c0-e0a3-42ae-bacb-1b32a3479ce8/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c06020c0-e0a3-42ae-bacb-1b32a3479ce8","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3643,"width":2300},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_29","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"while he always gave a helping hand to a poor or destitute brother tar,   though he did like his glass and sometimes swear hard, the accounts in the   Great Book would at last be against him.  I replied, that he himself had   always been in the habit of having his grog, and that perhaps it was of use to   him at the time he mentioned.  But still I thought a person would do better   without getting into the habit of using it.  He would then, I conceived, be   able to bear, with his own unassisted strength, what in the other case   required the aid of a glass of spirits.  And all that the temperance men   wanted to do, I told him, was to abolish the habit of drinking grog, as they   thought it was always unnecessary, and knew it was often injurious.  Jack   answered, he had no objection to a man’s going without his grog, if he chose   to; but he thought he might do it peaceably"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c06020c0-e0a3-42ae-bacb-1b32a3479ce8/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_30","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"36","height":3642,"width":2315,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cae5f40c-cccc-4b00-9474-6768ce1c4fdc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cae5f40c-cccc-4b00-9474-6768ce1c4fdc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3642,"width":2315},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_30","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"and in his own way; “and,” says he, when they come to draw up their long   papers, and oblige a man to put his name to them, swearing that he will   never touch a drop whether he is wet or dry, cold or hot, I’m off at the other   end of the line.” - He again told me the account of his going to Portland to   see his sick mother, and of his finding, on his arrival there, that she had been   buried several weeks, and said he thought he never again should go to   Portland or Boston.  – As the river grew narrower in our progress towards   the city, the current of water became stronger, until we reached the place   called the Hurl Gate — sometimes Hell Gate — where its rapidity was very   great.  The water in the centre of the stream is here urged on with such   velocity, that the surface of the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cae5f40c-cccc-4b00-9474-6768ce1c4fdc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_31","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"37","height":3624,"width":2320,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6bb77e23-abf4-4696-a625-72102b47c067/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6bb77e23-abf4-4696-a625-72102b47c067","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3624,"width":2320},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_31","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"water is there perceptibly higher than at the sides, near the shore.  Small   whirlpools, also, are very numerous from the same cause, and give a singular   appearance to the river.  The shore is here very rocky; and, taken altogether,   it is a very dangerous-looking place, and exhibits to every one who looks   upon it why it has received the striking name it bears. – The clouds, which in   the early morning had shut out the sun and the blue sky, were now dispersed,   and the heat already began to be oppressive, as we drew nearer land and   were sheltered from the chill south wind, and gave promise of a day similar   in temperature to the preceding.  The passengers, however, were most of   them upon deck, as the scene around was indeed beautiful, even"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6bb77e23-abf4-4696-a625-72102b47c067/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_32","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"38","height":3654,"width":2290,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/748e6b5e-00f2-4b5c-ad82-13eabf1848ed/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/748e6b5e-00f2-4b5c-ad82-13eabf1848ed","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3654,"width":2290},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_32","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"to those who had before been spectators of it.  There was a striking contrast   between it and that at the entrance of Boston Harbor.  Here all the country   round was rich and luxuriant.  The green color of the foliage was remarkably   vivid, and gave a fresh and healthy appearance to the trees bordering the   river which one rarely witnesses on the shores of New England in the month   of August.  But still the prospect from Boston Harbor is more picturesque, I   imagine, than this.  The numerous islands there, though comparatively dry   and barren, scattered as they are over a large extend of water, add much to   the beauty of the scene.  The view of the towns, too, near the shore, and the   first sight of the city of Boston, on a clear day, far"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/748e6b5e-00f2-4b5c-ad82-13eabf1848ed/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_33","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"39","height":3664,"width":2277,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0926fb6f-0f5d-47d9-b0b9-b0e7a7116bc0/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0926fb6f-0f5d-47d9-b0b9-b0e7a7116bc0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3664,"width":2277},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_33","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"surpass anything of the kind which is here presented — save only in the one   particular of leafy luxuriance.  – There was nothing very striking in the   appearance of New York, as it first presented itself to our view. – The   principal cause of this was an account of its low situation, and but a small   part of it being seen at once.  The river was quite circuitous, and presented   no advantages of viewing a large city at all to be compared to those of   Boston and Newport harbors.  Still the sight was interesting to an   inexperienced traveller like myself, especially when connected with the   consciousness that it was the great and proud city of New York that lay   spread before me.  Another circumstance in which the appearance of the city   at a distance differs from that of the cities of New-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0926fb6f-0f5d-47d9-b0b9-b0e7a7116bc0/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_34","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"4","height":3710,"width":2311,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c1ec0416-5bfa-45c8-8e92-a79a43a62639/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c1ec0416-5bfa-45c8-8e92-a79a43a62639","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3710,"width":2311},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_34","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"But, apart from all association or contrast, the view was grand and majestic,   though some little research, and a withdrawal of the attention from other   objects, were necessary to discover and feel all its grandeur and majesty; for   its elements were simple, and seen daily, and, though combined, might   easily be suffered to pass, therefore, unnoticed.  But to one who was   accustomed to read beauty on the fair face of nature, and even to detect a   lurking smile when to common eyes a withering frown was alone   perceptible, the scene was full of beauty and sublimity.  The sky was   unclouded and the moon walked forth in all the mightiness of her full and   unveiled dimensions.  Below, one vast sheet of water was spread around us   as far as the eye could reach, all its surface in one gentle and graceful   motion, except where our vessel was fighting its way onward, and sending   off, on either side, a long succession of waves white with foam.  All on to   the eastward, over"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c1ec0416-5bfa-45c8-8e92-a79a43a62639/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_35","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"40","height":3644,"width":2305,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f754dbbe-839a-4735-b6bc-1dd616191ac1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f754dbbe-839a-4735-b6bc-1dd616191ac1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3644,"width":2305},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_35","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"England, is the absence of Church spires — those expressive tokens, which,   pointing up to heaven, announce to the traveller as he catches the first   glimpse of the City of the Pilgrims, that its inhabitants have not yet forgotten   the God of their Fathers.  But although there are few if any of these to be   seen in New-York, this fact must not be taken as evidence of the neglect   there of providing suitable places for public worship; for whatever may be   the moral and religious condition of many of its inhabitants, certain it is that   a goodly number have never bowed their knees to Baal, and that through   their instrumentality churches do abound — though without the appendage   of a towering steeple. – Boats of all kinds became numerous as we   approximated the city, containing every description of passengers.  Many of   them were small, and contained two or three"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f754dbbe-839a-4735-b6bc-1dd616191ac1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_36","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"41","height":3647,"width":2258,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5ad12e47-2cf8-466b-84eb-38a408a096cc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5ad12e47-2cf8-466b-84eb-38a408a096cc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3647,"width":2258},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_36","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"men or boys, who were apparently sailing for mere pleasure, and with no   particular destination.  Others were of a larger size, and their passengers   more numerous on board of some of these were females; but whether they   constituted parties of pleasure, or were on their way to church or Sunday   School at some place on Long Island, it was impossible to determine.  A   good sized steam-boat was also seen ascending the river, with a large   number of passengers of both sexes.  These, as we afterwards learned, were   bound to a camp meeting at a town of which I have forgotten the name.  We   saw handbills after we arrived in the city, stating that this boat would leave   such a wharf at three or four different hours of the day, for the purpose of   conveying passengers to this meeting."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5ad12e47-2cf8-466b-84eb-38a408a096cc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_37","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"42","height":3659,"width":2327,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82a40f3d-8975-4a5d-9dd0-de4b5d1458a7/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82a40f3d-8975-4a5d-9dd0-de4b5d1458a7","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3659,"width":2327},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_37","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"The City at length lay upon our right, as we sailed by a part of it to our   landing place.  The buildings near the water were most of them small   wooden ones, and old, and as they concealed the view of the more elegant   portions of the city, the appearance was to us by no means very favorable.    The wharves that we passed were mostly well-filled with different kinds of   merchandize, and vessels of all sizes lay thickly along side of them.  A great   number of men and boys were bathing at the wharves, and swimming off at   various distances from the shore.  At about half past seven we came to the   wharf at which we were to land.  All was bustle on board — each one   looking out for his baggage, and preparing to go ashore as soon as the boat   should be drawn up.  It was not without some little regret, that"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82a40f3d-8975-4a5d-9dd0-de4b5d1458a7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_38","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"43","height":3681,"width":2304,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e1666f48-3f24-4b5a-b9ba-ede9dbd677cc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e1666f48-3f24-4b5a-b9ba-ede9dbd677cc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3681,"width":2304},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_38","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"I found myself obliged to quit the vessel in which, though the passage had   been short, my first expedition on the water had been made.  We had been   but 18 hours in sailing from Providence, but in that brief period, from the   novelty of my situation, and the uncommonly confined manner in which I   had hitherto passed my life — occurrences had taken place which would not   be without an important influence on my future life, and many new and   interesting scenes had been opened before me.  I had seen something of the   majesty and beauty of nature in different forms from what I had been   accustomed to behold them, and on a more extensive scale; and had thus   increased my stock of knowledge concerning the works and the wisdom of   the Deity.  There was nothing striking, or in any way peculiar in our   passage; although I had an opportunity of looking upon the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e1666f48-3f24-4b5a-b9ba-ede9dbd677cc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_39","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"44","height":3655,"width":2314,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/49e2a73c-7c55-45ff-bb28-b7c32ba95848/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/49e2a73c-7c55-45ff-bb28-b7c32ba95848","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3655,"width":2314},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_39","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"“wide waste of waters” in quite a variety of aspects — in gloom and in   sunshine, by night and by day — in each of which some trait was perceptible   of the Power that rules the waves. The works of art, as well as those of   nature, had been in some small degree exhibited to me.  One of the noblest   specimens which can perhaps anywhere be seen, was the vessel in which we   had sailed.  Though not as beautiful to the eye externally as the ship that   “walks the waves, a thing of life,” with the assistance of the breezes of   heaven, she was internally quite as splendid as the best of them, and her   whole structure and machinery were at least as curious and interesting.  The   application of the power of steam to the purpose of propelling so vast a body   with such velocity through the resisting watery element, is an achievement   of art which"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/49e2a73c-7c55-45ff-bb28-b7c32ba95848/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_40","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"45","height":3662,"width":2335,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f98c1c19-943c-4b38-ade5-113672906a6b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f98c1c19-943c-4b38-ade5-113672906a6b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3662,"width":2335},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_40","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"can never cease to be an object, as long as it is exhibited in similar instances,   of wonder and admiration. I had had specimens, too, of the pleasures and inconveniences   of traveling,- that custom which has so greatly increased of late years, and which may   almost now be considered a mode of life as common and important as that of   stationary boarding out, keeping house, or quietly contenting oneself in a   peaceful Bachelors Hall.  I had learnt something of the rules and practices   adopted in this department of civilized life, and had experienced some of   their enjoyments and troubles.  I had found that much of the chilling restraint   and distance so common on shore among strangers — and especially among   those who, though not actually strangers, only know each other by daily   passing and meeting in the street, and occasionally encountering"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f98c1c19-943c-4b38-ade5-113672906a6b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_41","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"46","height":3661,"width":2286,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f8627292-e467-4529-afab-6b16685e1952/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f8627292-e467-4529-afab-6b16685e1952","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3661,"width":2286},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_41","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"in other public places without any intercourse taking place between them —   was here in a great measure banished, and all seemed actuated by more   friendly and more social feelings than one often finds nearer home. – But the   time had now arrived when we must leave the faithful vessel which had   borne us, and separate.  Though it was but 18 hours since I first stepped on   board of her, she seemed almost to me like a home, and it was not without   some little emotion of sorrow that I stepped from her deck on to the plank   which reached to the wharf.  It is thus easy that we become attached to   objects, seasons and places, in our journey through this world!  And what   wonder is it that life itself is dear to us, when all on through its devious   course — from the cradle to the grave — new objects of attachment, of   interest, or of hope, are"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f8627292-e467-4529-afab-6b16685e1952/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_42","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"47","height":3682,"width":2330,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/105bbb72-4925-491a-8d9d-8e3488c9d8f8/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/105bbb72-4925-491a-8d9d-8e3488c9d8f8","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3682,"width":2330},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_42","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"continually presenting themselves around us, - and new chains binding us   down to earth! – There was but one passenger on board the Boston that I had   been previously acquainted with, and this was Mr. Moore, a partner with Mr.   Pendleton, our near neighbor in Washington Street.  He told me, on the   passage, in his irresistibly comic manner, that as I was of course on a   journey in search of a wife, he wished, when I was about it, I would contract   for two.  He said it would be but little more trouble, and if I picked out two   that suited me, they would of course suit him, and he would promise to take   me off my hands when I returned to Boston.  I expressed my fear that my   ideas of excellence in that line might not exactly coincide with his own; and   though I thanked him for the confidence he reposed in my taste and   judgment, I must decline"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/105bbb72-4925-491a-8d9d-8e3488c9d8f8/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_43","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"48","height":3664,"width":2288,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9f9b0db8-5881-4b04-941b-af3fc947f4b1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9f9b0db8-5881-4b04-941b-af3fc947f4b1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3664,"width":2288},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_43","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"acting for him, - as there was much of that article already in the Boston   Market, and in case he should disappoint me after my return, I should be   found to have been guilty of the inconsistency of “carrying coals to   Newcastle.”     And now behold me — a Pilgrim and a stranger — in the ancient city of   Gotham, - the Babylon of America!  The first thing to be done was to get our   trunks carried to some public house; and the next was to carry ourselves   there.  No. 1 was easily accomplished — for a crowd of porters, of all sorts   and sizes and colors — thronged the landing place — some with hand carts   — others with horses and drays — and some with no carts at all — and   kindly offered us their services.  No. 2 was rather more difficult — for the   weather was now excessively hot; the sun shone out bright, and the south   wind was but little felt after leaving the water.  We had decided upon putting   up at Mr. Seymour’s — the Franklin"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/9f9b0db8-5881-4b04-941b-af3fc947f4b1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_44","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"49","height":3674,"width":2297,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2c9f0f91-919b-41e4-acc0-da9b2849a6e3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2c9f0f91-919b-41e4-acc0-da9b2849a6e3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3674,"width":2297},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_44","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Hotel — in Broadway; and to this place, therefore, we followed the porter   who had charge of our baggage.  I found the appearance of the streets   through which we passed amazingly like that of the thickly-settled business   parts of Boston.  Hardly a peculiarity was observed, until a huge hog was   seen wallowing in the mire before me.  This was a most forcible appeal to   my sense of sight, and at once convinced me so strongly that it could be no   other place than New York that I had alighted upon, that I did not again   imagine myself in the good, though swineless, city of Boston.  After leaving   the vicinity of the landing place, we found but few people in the streets.  We    in a little while arrived at our appointed place in Broadway, which was near   the head of it — a few rods from the Battery, and opposite Bowling Green   — a very handsomely enclosed space between two streets, with large and   elegant trees, similar to the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2c9f0f91-919b-41e4-acc0-da9b2849a6e3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_45","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"5","height":3711,"width":2338,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d7fb322f-0c19-4f8e-8eda-a8e9c6b74e02/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d7fb322f-0c19-4f8e-8eda-a8e9c6b74e02","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3711,"width":2338},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_45","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"which the moon was proudly careening, her beams of sparkling light danced   gaily on the tiny billows, and imparted to them, as they followed each other   in endless succession, the appearance of brightest gems rising up to the   surface, glittering, and instantly disappearing.  Over the water to the   westward, a less dazzling but mellow light was brooding, giving to its gentle   motion the likeness of cheerful activity, in homely clothing; and not of wild   and dancing hilarity in robes of glittering splendor.  Occasionally a glimpse   of land, sleeping quietly in the silvery moonlight, was caught in the distance;   sometimes from the continent to the west, and sometimes from an island to   the east: - and twice we sailed within a short distance of an island, each with   its towering lighthouse, which are known by the names of the Great and   Little Gull.  Early in the evening, also, we came within sight of Long Island,   parallel with which, though at a considerable distance, we"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d7fb322f-0c19-4f8e-8eda-a8e9c6b74e02/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_46","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"50","height":3653,"width":2284,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f881dc5f-921c-4e6a-b8c6-6bb1e76c5940/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f881dc5f-921c-4e6a-b8c6-6bb1e76c5940","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3653,"width":2284},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_46","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"spot in Franklin Place, Boston.  The first thing which arrested my attention   here, was the singing of a creature in one of these trees — to which, not   knowing its proper name, I applied that of the New-York locust.  The sound   it made was different from that of our locusts in its length and frequency.    The creature appeared to have taken its station for the day, and to have   commenced its day’s work.  Its notes were short — of a few seconds   duration — and were each succeeded by a pause of about the same length,   and this interchange was constant and unremitted.  With this exception, the   sound was similar to that of our locusts, though somewhat louder.  – We   entered our names at Mr. Seymour’s and were conducted to our room, which   was up only five pair of stairs, where we were stopped short, apparently for   the very good reason that we were in the upper story.  We were"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f881dc5f-921c-4e6a-b8c6-6bb1e76c5940/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_47","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"51","height":3687,"width":2324,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/028fd046-1430-4917-9332-08c692c83138/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/028fd046-1430-4917-9332-08c692c83138","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3687,"width":2324},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_47","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"told that the house was then so crowded we could not that day be furnished   with a better room, but that the next day a room would probably be empty   and given to us a little nearer the earth.  Our situation, we found, was in the   front of the building, which faced to the southeast; so that we had the sun   and but little of the south wind, which rendered the place uncomfortably   warm.  There were two beds in the room, and Mr. H. and myself both   thought we would in the first place try to get some sleep, to make up for the   last night’s deficiency.  But the heat was intolerable, and we were soon   convinced that sleeping there was entirely out of the question.  I therefore   next proceeded to do over again the work in which the black barber had so   miserably failed on board the Boston early in the morning.  I mean that part   of his work of taking off my beard; for as to his other part, my"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/028fd046-1430-4917-9332-08c692c83138/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_48","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"52","height":3654,"width":2269,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/760a3dd2-11df-438d-b5cb-1810351d41fd/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/760a3dd2-11df-438d-b5cb-1810351d41fd","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3654,"width":2269},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_48","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"lacerated lip still bore fearful evidence that no repetition was necessary.    This finished, and having washed and dressed ourselves, we concluded to   leave our hot little attic till afternoon, when perhaps the absence of the sun in   it would render its temperature a little more endurable to northern Yankees.    After looking a little about the hotel, ascertaining the dinner hour, and taking   a glass of water — at the bar, (we positively took nothing stronger!), we   walked out, with the intention of going to church somewhere.  The first bells   had rung while we were upstairs, and a striking contrast they presented to   the bells of Boston.  Instead of one deep, universal, harmonious peal, which   the Sabbath bells in Boston constitute, apparently proceeding from almost   every street in the city, - the sound was here little more than a faint tinkling   in the east, another in the west, and another in the north,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/760a3dd2-11df-438d-b5cb-1810351d41fd/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_49","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"53","height":3661,"width":2309,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/412398e5-812c-4101-a0f8-8b52e18be436/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/412398e5-812c-4101-a0f8-8b52e18be436","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3661,"width":2309},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_49","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/412398e5-812c-4101-a0f8-8b52e18be436/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_50","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"54","height":3657,"width":2311,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cc26db20-bd2e-41cb-af12-4507fd812abc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cc26db20-bd2e-41cb-af12-4507fd812abc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3657,"width":2311},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_50","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"informed that most of the wealthy and fashionable families of the city were   at this season absent, either in the country or traveling to the north.  This   explained the matter in part; but still, judging from what I saw in this church   and afterwards in other places, there is not that extravagance in dress among   the females of New-York which is so common among those of Boston.  The   latter may perhaps one day learn, as indeed some of them already have, that   in the House of God a female, if she possess either beauty or devotion, or   both, is both in regard to good taste and the character of the place, “when   unadorned adorned the most.”  And as to those who possess neither, they   had much better stay at home than to attempt to make up in church for their   want of both, by foolish finery in dress and affected piety in conduct.  So   much for the ladies — and now to the preacher.  The ceremonies and [     ]   were long, and to me"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cc26db20-bd2e-41cb-af12-4507fd812abc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_51","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"55","height":3686,"width":2304,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1a83cd5b-ffac-4894-8ad1-014609d9de0b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1a83cd5b-ffac-4894-8ad1-014609d9de0b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3686,"width":2304},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_51","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"almost tedious, and I began to think that there was to be no sermon.  But I   was mistaken, for the Doctor ascended the pulpit at last, and commenced his   discourse.  The subject was Faith; but I shall say nothing further about it, for   I was a most faithless hearer.  I had had but little sleep during the two last   nights, and I was now sitting down for the first time with nothing to disturb   me; and it is not very wonderful that an ordinary preacher had not power to   keep me awake.  It was nearly half past twelve when the services were   concluded; but as we were not to dine till two, we walked around by the   market previous to going home.  I found the confectionary shops were all   open, and fruit women were to be seen at the corners near the market, with   peaches, pears, melons, &c. for sale.  We came across two Irishmen in a   violent dispute.  One of them, either to intimidate or to soften his antagonist,   exclaimed,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1a83cd5b-ffac-4894-8ad1-014609d9de0b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_52","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"56","height":3678,"width":2307,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6fefd63e-e86e-4cbb-a6d2-c759ab311481/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6fefd63e-e86e-4cbb-a6d2-c759ab311481","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3678,"width":2307},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_52","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"in a voice of thunder, “I’m an Irishman!”  The other, rather more mildly,   replied, “You’re none the better for that!” but instantly added, as though a   glimpse of the dear Emerald Isle had at that moment crossed his vision, and   reminded him of the home of their childhood of which he had lightly   spoken, - “and none the worse!”     The more public streets through which we passed, presented a Sunday   appearance, with the exception of the confectionary shops; but around the   wharves and the market, and other similar places, were congregated or   scattered a great number of loungers, many of them buying or eating fruit.    We found our way to the post office, through the long dark arch which   conducts to it, where we stopped a moment.  Here was another collection of   men, but altogether of a different class from those around the market."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6fefd63e-e86e-4cbb-a6d2-c759ab311481/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_53","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"57","height":3667,"width":2328,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5938189a-f949-45c1-8e63-8d4103391372/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5938189a-f949-45c1-8e63-8d4103391372","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3667,"width":2328},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_53","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Hogs of all ages, shapes and sizes were busily engaged, in all the streets   we entered, in doing the business which in Boston is entrusted to another   and more faithful class of workmen.  It does excite a smile of surprise in a   northerner, as well as a sensation of disgust, that the authorities of New York   should let loose, to cleanse their city, a swarm of beasts which are   proverbially the dirtiest of all cattle.  They doubtless eat up much of the   vegetable matter that is thrown out into the streets; but they leave something   in its place as much worse than decayed vegetables, as a New York   economy in this instance is in the end less beneficial than Boston,   prodigality in regard to the same subject.  – We returned to our hotel to   dinner, fatigued, and almost overcome with the heat, which was indeed   excessive.  A large number of boarders both males and females, assem-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5938189a-f949-45c1-8e63-8d4103391372/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_54","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"58","height":3686,"width":2336,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f191003-c3a3-44dc-acd8-b0ce92550bff/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f191003-c3a3-44dc-acd8-b0ce92550bff","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3686,"width":2336},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_54","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"bled at the table, which was well spread with flesh and fowl of various   kinds.  A species of soup was served up, which was new to me.  It appeared   to be made without meat of any sort, and contained a vegetable or fruit of a   reddish color, the name of which I could not ascertain, and which was also   made into a very agreeable sauce, of a rather higher flavor than appearance.    – After the meat was partaken of, the plates were all removed by the   servants, the table cleaned by brushing all the crumbs and pieces of bread   from the cloth with hand brushes, into bread trays, and pies and puddings   were set before us, with a new set of knives and forks.  These were all very   good, and were eaten of freely, when the remnants, the plates, and the table   cloth likewise were taken away, and a rich collection of fruit placed on the   bare table, together with plates, knives, &c."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f191003-c3a3-44dc-acd8-b0ce92550bff/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_55","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"6","height":3716,"width":2343,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e88aaf22-4dd3-457a-8ff9-e31f4e9dc254/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e88aaf22-4dd3-457a-8ff9-e31f4e9dc254","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3716,"width":2343},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_55","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"were to sail the rest of the way to New-York.  A schooner or a sloop was   now and then met or passed; and, if near enough, the sailors could be seen   on deck, staring, apparently in astonishment, at the velocity with which we   were moving. – We sat an hour gazing around us, and waiting for the   appearance of the musicians, who were to add the melody of sweet sounds   and the soothing power of music to the harmonious influences which already   existed around us.  But the poor blacks who composed the Band were not   cabin passengers, and were therefore obliged to partake of their supper after   the latter had finished theirs, and in an inferior place.  This accounted for   their delay in appearing upon deck, where the passengers (and some ladies   among the number, - although it was quite cold) were anxiously waiting   their arrival.  At length, however, one of them made his appearance at the   further end of the deck, and very moderately made his way along towards   the stern.  He was a tall, gaunt man,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e88aaf22-4dd3-457a-8ff9-e31f4e9dc254/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_56","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"7","height":3720,"width":2313,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/06b7d79f-63ce-4d0c-a572-b2eac18a4645/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/06b7d79f-63ce-4d0c-a572-b2eac18a4645","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3720,"width":2313},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_56","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"with a frame that appeared originally designed for that of a strong, muscular,   and well-proportioned individual; but this design seemed to have been   thwarted by disease or by some other cause.  He was poorly dressed, and   appeared to be of the lower class of colored people.  While looking at him,   we saw the head and shoulders of another dark outline at the head of the   stairs.  On examining it, we found it was progressing towards us, in the   man’s full stature, while we were expecting to see the rest of the body   ascend the stairs.  He was a stout, short, stupid negro, with a tattered surtout   touching the floor, and an old broad-rimmed hat, one part of it touching his   left ear.  Thus the remainder of the band came straggling up, one at a time,   being of all the intermediate sizes and shapes between the tall walking   skeleton and the short moping thick man with the long surtout and the   slouched hat.  There were about a dozen of them in the whole, and each   proceeded very leisurely to prepare his instrument for the intended"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/06b7d79f-63ce-4d0c-a572-b2eac18a4645/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_57","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"8","height":3688,"width":2293,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e4a5a6bb-313e-4d79-aff4-5b3aab0fcb2e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e4a5a6bb-313e-4d79-aff4-5b3aab0fcb2e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3688,"width":2293},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_57","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"performance.  After a variety of preparatory flourishes, their discordant   tunings gradually merged into order and harmony, in the shape of a very   common tune; but airing in some measure to my ignorance of the scientific   department of music, and not entirely to the unskillful manner in which the   band performed, though they were not the best of musicians, - I could not   decide whether the tune was Old Hundred or the Rogue’s March.  But this   ignorance of the proper designation of the tune did not prevent me from   enjoying the music.  The Blacks did exceedingly well — considering; and   the tunes with which they regaled us were listened to with much attention   and interest, and apparently, too, with much feeling.  Indeed no one could be   an auditor of even the indifferent performances of a band of musicians in   such a situation and at such a time, without some degree of sympathetic   yielding"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e4a5a6bb-313e-4d79-aff4-5b3aab0fcb2e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_58","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"9","height":3688,"width":2290,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ffa1b408-13b1-4e93-8719-f8953c02ceb2/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ffa1b408-13b1-4e93-8719-f8953c02ceb2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3688,"width":2290},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a89b5ec-7478-4e6a-a1ae-26fa5a5ca3e9/canvas/_58","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"to the influences both of sight and sound.  The very causes which tended to   render the effects of music itself more impressive and appropriate — the   stillness of everything around, and the absence of a variety of objects to   attract the eye - tended also to increase in power the strains of that music, by   giving to them more than their ordinary fullness and sweetness.  The nature   of the tunes with which they favored us was various.  Now a quick and   merry air would diffuse delight and animation over the spirits and   countenances of us all; and now a more slow and solemn measure, and more   in consonance with the calm majesty that breathed around, but still   delightful, and its tunes drank in by eager listeners, would touch, with deeper   pathos, the more proffered and tender emotions of the soul, and wake up a   train of sympathetic feeling, almost too sacred for ordinary life, and not   unaccompanied with a tinge of melancholy.  I have often noticed"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ffa1b408-13b1-4e93-8719-f8953c02ceb2/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7fe8add8-e7e3-4468-81c1-6d0ff237d21d/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}