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Henry Hull was his partner for a brief period of time. Clapp was a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, the New-England Historic Genealogical Society, Saint Matthew's Church, and the Boston Old School Boys Association. He married Mary Elizabeth Tucker in 1835 and they had six children. 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A journal, of an uninteresting and well-known tour, like that which   I have thus far completed, spun out as it is to a tedious and most   unreasonable length, would, if sent out into the world in a   formidable octavo — which it would already well-nigh fill —   justly be considered an infliction of too severe a nature for the   patience of ordinary readers.  But no such evil intention has   actuated me in inditing these hasty though extended sketches.  The   Republic of Letters is safe, so far as this journal or its author is   concerned, from the prospect of any accession to the number of its   now numberless stupid and rickety progeny; and no one of its   paternal members need suffer from the dread of being called on to   watch over"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cb4d8d27-d9e5-4fe2-a51e-23cb72c0ea89/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"10","height":3840,"width":2400,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3dc88210-2940-4b17-8e6f-a9b20af3d274/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/3dc88210-2940-4b17-8e6f-a9b20af3d274","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":3840,"width":2400},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_2","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"attend Church; but the majority it is believed, indulge themselves   in riding or sailing, or sauntering about the city.  Towards night   these different classes are returning home, and present in the   streets the spectacle which attracted my attention.  – The contrast   was indeed gloomy enough (at least it partook of the sable hue, so   far as New York was concerned) between the class of people   taking their evening walk here, and the good citizens of Boston of   all ages and sexes, but mostly of one color, who delight in pacing   up and down Washington Street, in promenading in the Mall, and   in rambling over the Common, on a calm Sabbath summer   evening.  In the former place, one half the individuals you meet are   marked out to you by their color as cooks or house servants; and   you are irresistibly reminded, while the thermometer is ranging   between 80 and 90, of hot kitchen fires, cooking stoves, and   smoking dishes of all kinds of flesh and fowl, - all very good  in   their"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3dc88210-2940-4b17-8e6f-a9b20af3d274/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"11","height":3829,"width":2348,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fd87dd7d-0828-41f2-847e-e0b710ddf20b/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/fd87dd7d-0828-41f2-847e-e0b710ddf20b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":3829,"width":2348},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_3","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"proper place and season; but now you feel you had much rather   some more agreeable ideas should be suggested.  Occasionally,   you have a transient glimpse of an interesting countenance   beaming with beauty; more rarely, one on which female modesty   rests like a moonbeam; and, more rarely still, a face radiant with   both; and a specimen of each of these, I believe I can say, I saw   both among the blacks and whites.  But they were each instantly   succeeded by vulgar or vacant faces, masculine airs, and wanton   looks; and these, too, were furnished by the females of both colors.    – In Boston, on the contrary, there is scarcely any of this variety,   either in color or in manners.  All seem to be on a level, or nearly   so, both men and women; and among females, the greatest   difference perceptible is, that those who are handsome know they   are so, and are only anxious to witness the extent of the admiration   of those they meet;"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fd87dd7d-0828-41f2-847e-e0b710ddf20b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_4","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"12","height":3818,"width":2393,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3dbc8b5d-f8c2-4415-884e-0184efb51385/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/3dbc8b5d-f8c2-4415-884e-0184efb51385","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3818,"width":2393},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_4","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"while those who are not so, either think they are and manage   accordingly, or try to make others think so, and watch earnestly to   see if they have succeeded. – I hardly know whether to qualify this   general assertion, or to let it stand and run the risk of incurring the   displeasure of some indignant fair one who may chance to light   upon this libellous sentence.  But I think I will venture to suffer it   to remain as it is, for the truth is not always to be warded off by a   proviso, or concealed by fancied exceptions! – We reached our   boarding house about the tea hour, and seated ourselves at the   table, which we found very lightly furnished.  Thin slices of bread   and butter, a few small cakes, and shavings of smoked beef, were   all the eatables.  Two kinds of tea, and coffee, were provided.  –  We walked out again after tea.  For awhile we seated ourselves in   the Battery, and enjoyed the fresh and cool"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3dbc8b5d-f8c2-4415-884e-0184efb51385/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_5","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":3824,"width":2360,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0aa0dddc-f2e2-4377-b694-cb4935541429/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/0aa0dddc-f2e2-4377-b694-cb4935541429","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3824,"width":2360},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_5","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"south breeze from the water, and looked upon the mass of people   who were now thronging this public walk.  As it grew darker, we   concluded to go in search of some lecture.  On arriving opposite   Tammany Hall, we saw that it was lighted up, and we entered the   door of the lower entry to ascertain what meeting was to be held   there.  A gentleman came in, who informed us that there was to be   a meeting of a society who neither believed in God or the devil, -   that he had procured a ticket, and was going to attend merely from   curiosity.  On asking him farther respecting his ticket, he said he   had paid a shilling for it, that being the price at which visiters were   admitted.  Finding that the society referred to was that of Free   Inquirers, and that they had set a greater value on the seats for   visiters than we"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0aa0dddc-f2e2-4377-b694-cb4935541429/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_6","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"14","height":3807,"width":2392,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/de0c732a-c53d-4f75-af2e-d04b6b22872b/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/de0c732a-c53d-4f75-af2e-d04b6b22872b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3807,"width":2392},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_6","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"deemed they possessed, we concluded not to go in, but to proceed   further and endeavor to fare better. We heard several bells tolling,   but we could come across no church for some time that was open.    At length, however, we found one, and entered.  It was small, and   very plain inside.  The preacher was already in the midst of his   sermon — the lecture having apparently commenced much earlier   than the others.  The church was a Methodist one, and the minister   appeared to belong to the class of that denomination who preach as   though they thought they should be listened to in proportion to the   loudness and vehemence of their words and actions.  If the   measure of good produced upon his hearers could be estimated by   these qualities of the speaker, his sermon on that night must have   had a most powerful and beneficial"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/de0c732a-c53d-4f75-af2e-d04b6b22872b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_7","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"15","height":3818,"width":2361,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2e54397e-98dd-4410-b2aa-a1d2607b3261/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/2e54397e-98dd-4410-b2aa-a1d2607b3261","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3818,"width":2361},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_7","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"effect — for the man at times actually raved.  He was a large and   muscular man, and possessed of a pair of lungs that, “when the fit   was on him,” would allow of almost any extent of “sound or fury.”    And yet he would at times lower his voice, and modulate it to some   tender or pathetic expression, and even cause it to “discourse most   excellent music.”  But his sermon was soon ended, and a hymn   was given out.  And if the style of the minister’s preaching was   such as to offend me by its loud and boisterous fierceness, the   singing was sufficiently easy, natural and touching, to make   amends.  The whole congregation rose, and the song of praise   ascended from the lips of young and old — from those of tender   children, whose tongues sweetly lisped the praises of Him who on   earth blessed them, and who in heaven will give"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2e54397e-98dd-4410-b2aa-a1d2607b3261/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_8","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"16","height":3832,"width":2375,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/88e7ecbb-806d-425b-ac8f-5d3f3e9dafa3/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/88e7ecbb-806d-425b-ac8f-5d3f3e9dafa3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3832,"width":2375},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_8","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"them harps if possible of still sweeter sound — as well as from   those of blooming youth and chastened manhood and hoary age.    There was little of science or art in their singing; it was simple,   such as one hears by the fireside of a New England pious family of   children, and it was most touching.  Going, as I did, directly from   the crowded streets of a great and gay metropolis, into this little   sanctuary, the striking contrast contributed in some degree to the   effect it produced upon me.  I had no idea that such a scene could   be presented out of the northern states, and especially in the City of   New York, where, as one is very apt to imagine, business and   pleasure alone have their votaries.  The tune which was sung, too,   was one of those which are connected, in the mind of almost every   descendant of the Pilgrims, with all that is tender and holy"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/88e7ecbb-806d-425b-ac8f-5d3f3e9dafa3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_9","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"17","height":3828,"width":2348,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f69f891-cfad-4bc9-9d48-90ec6550153e/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/8f69f891-cfad-4bc9-9d48-90ec6550153e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3828,"width":2348},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_9","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"in the recollections of youth and childhood.  As the hymn was   chanted, and as I looked in the faces of some of the youthful   singers, the melting strains gradually and imperceptibly associated   themselves with the delightful enjoyments of my own native hearth   at a time when life and hope were young — when four brothers   and sisters with their parents formed as happy a fireside circle as   ever enjoyed a New England winter’s evening.  And, it can still be   said, that of that cheerful group — the aged and the young — all   are still living.  Although some, in the course of nature, cannot   continue many years longer, and although others of us may have   the seeds of early death planted within us — yet now, blessed be   God, not one is missing from the list of the living — removed   though some of us are from that spot which alone in the wide   universe will ever possess"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f69f891-cfad-4bc9-9d48-90ec6550153e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_10","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"18","height":3821,"width":2406,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6013a948-292f-43bc-83a1-2b796a2a1fe6/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/6013a948-292f-43bc-83a1-2b796a2a1fe6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3821,"width":2406},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_10","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"to us the charm of the home of our childhood.     After leaving the Church, in which the first scene had been   exhibited to me since I commenced my journey that had power to   “soften and subdue” every feeling, we again walked a few minutes   on the Battery, where many people were still enjoying the cool   south breeze.  We then returned to our hotel.  At nine o’clock,   every evening, we learnt, a supper table was set, which in some   degree made up for the lightness of the repast on the teatable.  As   the supper bell rang soon after we entered, we sat down with a few   others and ate a piece of cold fowl, after which we repaired to our   chamber.  I felt myself the want of rest.  I had been in a state of   constant excitement for a longer period than I had been   accustomed to, and the motion of the vessel, I found, had affected   me very considerably."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6013a948-292f-43bc-83a1-2b796a2a1fe6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_11","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"19","height":3813,"width":2358,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/24f8c50c-c461-492b-b230-e3f4ef722035/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/24f8c50c-c461-492b-b230-e3f4ef722035","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3813,"width":2358},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_11","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Objects around me, ever since I landed, seemed to be moving from   me, and also appeared to move up and down in the manner which   the progress and rocking of the steamboat had caused the objects   around me while on board of her to appear to move and to waver.    This naturally occasioned, or perhaps constituted, a sense of   dizziness, which was very unpleasant.  On account of the heat, we   left the window and door of our room open on going to bed.  I soon   fell asleep, but I was awakened in the course of the night by a   disturbance in the street, and by Mr. Hull’s getting up and looking   out of the window.  I kept awake merely long enough to hear the   cry of “Murder!” and the complaints of Mr. H. about the excessive   heat, which had kept him awake, he said, all the night.  I was soon   again in a sound sleep, and was not again disturbed.  I awoke in   good season in the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/24f8c50c-c461-492b-b230-e3f4ef722035/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_12","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2","height":3834,"width":2379,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2a828e44-89db-4592-b0ba-f0a1c7675213/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/2a828e44-89db-4592-b0ba-f0a1c7675213","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3834,"width":2379},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_12","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the welfare or prolong the existence of a disowned or neglected  bantling.  The motives which have prompted me to occupy many   of my leisure moments for some time past over the pages of the   diary, are not of that extensively benevolent character which would   seek the good of all mankind.  Less elevated ideas have urged me   to the use of my pen; the limits of my field of usefulness are more   contracted; and I have acted in a humbler sphere even than that of   benefiting my friends and acquaintance.  The pleasure of recording   the incidents and a description of the scenes I witnessed; and the   anticipated satisfaction of perusing the record at some future time,   and thus again living in those incidents and gazing upon those   scenes — have been my principal objects; not perhaps   unaccompanied, however, with the belief or the hope that other   eyes — eyes of affection"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2a828e44-89db-4592-b0ba-f0a1c7675213/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_13","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"20","height":3825,"width":2388,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8ef4613b-010c-4cb4-996a-757ec6319511/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/8ef4613b-010c-4cb4-996a-757ec6319511","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3825,"width":2388},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_13","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"morning, and though I could not say that I felt very well, my sleep   had much refreshed me, and I was therefore better than the day   before.  Mr. H. wondered how I could sleep so soundly through all   the heat and noise of the night, which had robbed him of nearly all   his rest.  Nothing but great exhaustion would have allowed me to   do it — for my sleep is as easily “murdered” in ordinary cases as   that of the most nervous hypochondriacal or hysterical patient. -   We took a walk, about six o’clock, to the market, which was a   sight really worth seeing.  Though neither the building nor the   internal arrangements are anything to be compared with those of   Faneuil Hall Market, yet its extent was such as to admit a man of   every species of provisions that one would think sufficient for a   nation instead of a city.  The most peculiar circumstance I noticed   was that of the freshness of the fish. They"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8ef4613b-010c-4cb4-996a-757ec6319511/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_14","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"21","height":3824,"width":2365,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/062c0ecb-46c3-41cd-bc82-480c94e66910/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/062c0ecb-46c3-41cd-bc82-480c94e66910","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3824,"width":2365},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_14","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"were spread around in great numbers on the stalls, and were all   alive!  Even the lobsters were stretching forth their claws and   endeavoring to creep.  One man had a basket of eels which he was   skinning, and as he threw them, after having undergone the   operation, on to a bench, they danced around in a most animating   manner, and were the most lively animals in the whole market.    There were a great many women with their baskets on their arms   purchasing provisions — many more than there are at the Boston   market.  There were also many engaged in selling, especially at the   fruit stalls, which were almost exclusively occupied by them.    Peaches, at a penny a piece, were in great abundance.  This price   puzzled me a little at first, for it did not occur to me that in the   New York currency a cent and a penny are the same, although I   was aware that their shilling and our"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/062c0ecb-46c3-41cd-bc82-480c94e66910/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_15","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"22","height":3783,"width":2364,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1823e521-aed5-49ec-87af-b7ee6779d16c/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/1823e521-aed5-49ec-87af-b7ee6779d16c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3783,"width":2364},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_15","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"ninepence were similar.  We took breakfast at 8, and then   proceeded to make our calls and perform the business we had to   do.  The heat was very oppressive, and equal to that of the previous   days.  We stopped in, in the course of the forenoon, at the large   Methodist printing establishment.  The room in which most of the   work is done is a large hall, on the floor of which the presses,   about twenty in number, are ranged.  A gallery extends around the   whole of this room, in which the compositors are at work.  In an   adjoining room is the Napier printing press, on which the Christian   Advocate is printed.  Over 20,000 of this paper are struck off   weekly; are even with a press that throws them off so expeditiously   as the one used, they are obliged to take the whole time from   Monday morning to Saturday night in printing one number. This   press is worked by a man turning a crank.  The other presses in the   establishment are principally the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1823e521-aed5-49ec-87af-b7ee6779d16c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_16","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"23","height":3781,"width":2370,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/603c846d-cec4-4e57-923d-c3e8963a9e05/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/603c846d-cec4-4e57-923d-c3e8963a9e05","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3781,"width":2370},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_16","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Washington and Smith hand presses.  Many of the books printed   here are stereotyped, and great editions are struck off at once.  The   machines for inking, called “Iron roller boys,” were attached to   some of the presses, and appeared to operate well.  On others,   where a boy — a flesh and blood boy — worked the rollers, one   roller was laid on the other, the top one being of skin and the lower   one of composition, the latter only touching the cylinder and the   type.  By this means the rollers distributed each other all the way   over the form as well as when on the cylinder.  This was the only   improvement I noticed that had not been introduced into the offices   in Boston.  We brought away with us a sheet of the Methodist   hymn book, which they were printing on one of the presses, in 72   mo. on a royal sheet.  It is in nonpareil type, and is beautifully   executed.     We afterwards paid a visit to Peale’s Museum, which is situated   in Broadway, near the Park.  This is an elegant"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/603c846d-cec4-4e57-923d-c3e8963a9e05/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_17","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"24","height":3790,"width":2383,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ea463e1-897d-40cd-afdd-81bc8aca23ed/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/2ea463e1-897d-40cd-afdd-81bc8aca23ed","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3790,"width":2383},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_17","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"and tasteful establishment, but its selections are rather too much   confined to scientific objects, for one of the uninitiated.  There are   many curiosities, however, well worth seeing, the most striking of   which then present, was the Anaconda, or great Bengal serpent.    His snakerhip was about ten feet in length – he being but a   youngster.  When fully grown, they are said to be forty feet.  His   wise box was covered over when we entered, but he is not   confined at all, the box being open one side.  He had been for   several days shedding his skin, and was remarkably sleepy and   stupid.  He was also blind — a film growing over his eyes at the   time he sheds his coat.  Mr. Peale would lift up his head in his   hand, and pat his chin and neck, but the indolent creature would   only run out his forked tongue, and try to compose himself again.    He was very regularly coiled up, with his head in the centre.  The   size of the largest part of his body was about that of a man’s arm."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2ea463e1-897d-40cd-afdd-81bc8aca23ed/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_18","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"25","height":3818,"width":2372,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f832a0b0-8592-45d0-8979-94376e873c45/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/f832a0b0-8592-45d0-8979-94376e873c45","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3818,"width":2372},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_18","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"He was perfectly harmless, and I patted his soft back with my   hand, though not without some little revulsion.  I did not shrink,   however, from the touch, more than the poor snake did himself; for   his surface was then unusually tender, and slightly recoiled from   the least contact.  He is fed, they told us, about once in four or five   days or a week, when he despatches, at one swallow, a live rabbit   or some other creature.  We could hardly persuade ourselves that it   was possible for him to take in such a mouthful, for his head and   neck were very small — and not so large as those of a rabbit.  But   they said his gullet was capable of great distension, and it was a   fact that he did swallow substances of a larger size than that of the   part of his own body into which they were admitted, when in its   natural state.  Public notice is given when the serpent is to take his   weekly meal, and many visiters are present, who, although they do   not actually dine with him, enjoy"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f832a0b0-8592-45d0-8979-94376e873c45/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_19","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"26","height":3819,"width":2423,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3d5a1c3b-e502-43f9-9b14-593fc42b271a/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/3d5a1c3b-e502-43f9-9b14-593fc42b271a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3819,"width":2423},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_19","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"what is preferable, the satisfaction of seeing him partake of his live   fare.  He uses, it is said, neither pepper nor salt, and the digestion   of his fresh meat is not assisted by either wine or dessert.  Some   who gaze upon the exploit of this wise serpent might perhaps take   a lesson which could be usefully put in practice every day of their   lives, not that it would be advisable for them to catch a wild rabbit   or a raccoon and slay and eat him raw — “unanointed,   unannealed,” though the exercise of even this might be of great   benefit to them; but they might adopt the snake’s habit of   abstaining from those thousand condiments and conserves — that   numerous list of pickled peppers and peppered pickles — the long   series of gravies and sauces, and the numberless et ceteras of a   fashionable dinner table — and above all, from the brandy and the   wine which are thought to have the power of transforming this   weighty and indiscriminate mass into light and diges-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3d5a1c3b-e502-43f9-9b14-593fc42b271a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_20","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"27","height":3830,"width":2358,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f25c41a5-37ad-4d92-a13f-263f9d120e24/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/f25c41a5-37ad-4d92-a13f-263f9d120e24","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3830,"width":2358},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_20","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"tible nutriment — this they might do with great advantage to their   health.  So that in more serpents than one, such people might be   admonished to be “wise as serpents.” — When the Anaconda is   well, Mr. Peale takes him from his box and plays with him.  He   informed us that the snake would sometimes wind the hinder part   of his body round his arm and thus suspend himself with his head   towards the floor.  He possessed great strength in thus curling   himself round a substance, and Mr. P. said that at times he would   encircle his arm so closely as to give him pain.  The insects in this   museum, mostly pinned upon papers, are I should think   innumerable.  I hardly had time even to look at them all.  One   room is nearly filled with portraits — comprising those of most of   our great men — the living and the dead.  We noticed the outer   surface of the trunk of a tree, 18 feet in circumference, from some   of the western states; also the stump of a tree petrified, or turned   into stone."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f25c41a5-37ad-4d92-a13f-263f9d120e24/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_21","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"28","height":3818,"width":2356,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1231b322-2879-4c7e-a76e-9cf232849c59/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/1231b322-2879-4c7e-a76e-9cf232849c59","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3818,"width":2356},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_21","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"We found a small pair of scales in one of the rooms, and asked the   man to weigh us.  When we learned the result we were both of us   tempted to doubt its correctness; but we were informed that there   was no mistake in it.  Mr. H. weighed 125 and I 118.  What a solid   firm!  If our credit was as unsubstantial as our bodies, we should   find it difficult to do business.  However, we both comforted   ourselves with the thought that we had been traveling rapidly in   excessively hot weather, and that a few pounds at least must have   been left behind us in New England! - After dinner we again   walked out, and in the course of the day we walked the City pretty   thoroughly.  We went through many dirty and confined places,   where, if any where, disease would be expected to prevail.  In the   course of the day, one of those incidents occurred to me, which,   though trifling, sometimes cause us more trouble and perplexity to   explain than"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1231b322-2879-4c7e-a76e-9cf232849c59/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_22","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"29","height":3827,"width":2376,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f22509ea-84e8-4bf5-af55-045799f54675/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/f22509ea-84e8-4bf5-af55-045799f54675","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3827,"width":2376},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_22","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"others of a thousand times the importance.  I carried a letter with   me from Boston (from Munroe & Francis, as I thought), directed to   Mr. Bliss, bookseller in Broadway.  When I got up in the morning I   took it from my trunk and threw it into my hat, intending to leave it   the first time I should pass the place.  Mr. B’s store was not open   when I went by before breakfast.  On going home to breakfast I   saw the letter in my hat as I placed it upon the table in the entry,   and I drew my gloves which were also in my hat, over it to conceal   it.  After breakfast, on coming to Mr. Bliss’s store, I took off my   hat for the letter and it was not there!  I searched under the lining,   and felt in all my pockets, but it was nowhere about me.  I   immediately returned to the hotel and looked through the entries,   on the stairs, and in my trunk, and inquired of the barkeeper; but I   could see nor hear nothing of it.  I called"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f22509ea-84e8-4bf5-af55-045799f54675/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_23","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"3","height":3857,"width":2400,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f4868f1b-3976-45dd-81ad-34f9be465f86/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/f4868f1b-3976-45dd-81ad-34f9be465f86","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3857,"width":2400},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_23","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"and of friendship — may likewise glide over these rude sketches,   — and — either bless Heaven that the writer still lives to enjoy   with them the perusal, or drop one tear to the memory of the   deceased! —     But I must resume my account of New York, and of my visit   there.  The last No. of my journal concluded with a rather minute   description of the dinner table at the Franklin Hotel on the Sabbath   that we arrived in the city.  After dinner, Mr. H. and myself   repaired to our chamber, where we found the heat not quite so   oppressive as in the morning.  We concluded not to go to Church   in the afternoon, and we therefore laid down till about four   o’clock, when we again walked out.  The Battery, which was near   our boarding house, is a noble place, and one of which New York   may well be proud.  It is not so large as Bos-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f4868f1b-3976-45dd-81ad-34f9be465f86/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_24","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"30","height":3801,"width":2398,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a28f360a-95a5-4976-a920-56c5deea9aa8/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/a28f360a-95a5-4976-a920-56c5deea9aa8","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3801,"width":2398},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_24","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"upon Mr. Bliss and explained it to him, and then went to Mr. C.   Francis and asked him to inform his father the next time he wrote   to Boston, in order if the letter was of any great value the loss   might be remedied as soon as possible, if indeed it could be   remedied.  Towards night I stopped in again at Mr. Bliss’s, to   ascertain if he had heard anything of the letter, and he said that one   had been left there in the afternoon which, though not from   Munroe & Francis, he presumed must be the one.  He showed it to   me, and I immediately recognised the outside.  It was from   Stimpson & Clapp.  He said the person who brought it told him he   found it on the floor at the Franklin Hotel.  It appeared evident to   me that it must have been taken out of my hat, and it was not till a   day or two after that I recollected that on that morning when we   went home to breakfast we found it not quite ready, and"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a28f360a-95a5-4976-a920-56c5deea9aa8/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_25","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"31","height":3825,"width":2337,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2f57f210-9988-4846-b04d-314e5a0f7855/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/2f57f210-9988-4846-b04d-314e5a0f7855","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3825,"width":2337},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_25","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"therefore took our hats and walked awhile on the Battery.  It   probably was the first time of going into breakfast that I saw the   letter in my hat and covered it with my gloves; and the last time I   might have dropped it on taking off my hat.  It cost me much   trouble and uneasiness, for I knew not the value of the letter — and   I have occupied all this space in relating the circumstance in order   to impress it on my own mind, and perhaps the minds of others,   that a hat was made to cover the head, and not to contain letters, or   any other valuable item (the human cranium excepted), especially   in a public and crowded hotel. – The group which meets around   the dinner table of a public house in a large metropolis is indeed a   motley one.  The individuals generally come from every part of our   own country and from various foreign countries.  Those at Mr.   Seymour’s partook of"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2f57f210-9988-4846-b04d-314e5a0f7855/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_26","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"32","height":3814,"width":2337,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7e2fe453-e11e-4c3a-8a04-bb21e305bcc2/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/7e2fe453-e11e-4c3a-8a04-bb21e305bcc2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":3814,"width":2337},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_26","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"this character, though I believe that Mr. Hull and myself were the   only ones from Boston, and it was rather singular that we were the   only individuals in the house who came passengers in the Boston,   the others all having put up at other places.  Most of the company   seemed to be southerners and citizens of New-York.  They   appeared to be acquainted among themselves, and we had but little   conversation with them.  On Monday, a gentleman sat next me at   dinner who commenced a conversation by some remarks on the   heat of the weather, and continued it in regard to other subjects.  I   found he was a passenger on board the Macdonough from   Hartford, which we passed at sunrise the morning previous.  He   thought we must have had an uncommonly quick passage, from the   manner in which we"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7e2fe453-e11e-4c3a-8a04-bb21e305bcc2/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_27","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"33","height":3817,"width":2348,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7c3bbf91-2e58-43c1-aa53-cdb0b17d1000/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/7c3bbf91-2e58-43c1-aa53-cdb0b17d1000","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":3817,"width":2348},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_27","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"sailed by them.  I ascertained that this gentleman’s name was                                                       Huntingdon, and that he was from Norwick, Ct. – Towards night   on Monday afternoon, Mr. Hull and myself went down to the   landing place of the Brooklyn Ferry boats, which is near that of the   Boston packets, and in the neighborhood of the market which I   visited in the morning.  There are several of these boats, which are   propelled by steam, and go back and forth from the City to   Brooklyn through the whole day, stopping but a very few minutes   on either side.  The engine and wheels of these boats are placed in   the centre, and there is room on both sides of them, on deck, for   carriages to pass. — so that these drive on board from the wharf, or   backside of the river, and are thus carried over, which is the only   way of crossing — there being no bridge from any part of the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7c3bbf91-2e58-43c1-aa53-cdb0b17d1000/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_28","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"34","height":3841,"width":2409,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b49cc146-c9be-49dc-b62c-af3a0de56116/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/b49cc146-c9be-49dc-b62c-af3a0de56116","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3841,"width":2409},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_28","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"city to Long Island.  In consequence of Mr. H. being obliged to   look around some time in search of a friend who resided   somewhere near, we lost the opportunity of going over to Brooklyn   in one of these boats, as it was our intention to do.  I likewise lost   sight of Mr. H. and was therefore left to find my way home alone.    I directed my course towards Broadway, and soon succeeded in   reaching it.  As I had decided on starting the next morning for   Albany, I now went down Beekman Street, to the North America,   the boat which went the following day to Albany, to see if it was   necessary to enter my name.  I found all that was necessary was to   be on board previous to 7 o’clock in the morning, the hour at   which she was to start. - I had thought some of paying a visit to   Philadelphia before shaping my course"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b49cc146-c9be-49dc-b62c-af3a0de56116/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_29","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"35","height":3819,"width":2359,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a11572f9-0625-4d07-9530-03a818ef0104/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/a11572f9-0625-4d07-9530-03a818ef0104","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3819,"width":2359},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_29","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"homewards, but had ascertained on inquiry soon after my arrival   that it would not be possible to return to Boston so soon as I had   decided upon, if I should go to any greater distance than I then   was, - unless indeed I should start for Philadelphia on Monday   morning, arrive there at night — start for New York again on   Tuesday morning, arrive then at night, for Albany on Wednesday   morning, arrive there at night, and for Boston on Thursday   morning — a mode of travelling which would leave me scarcely   any profitable time in each city, and which I was in reality afraid to   undertake, as I was so little used to traveling that the consequences   I thought be serious, judging from the effect already produced by   my sail from Providence to New York. I ascertained, to my entire   satisfaction, long before I reached Boston,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a11572f9-0625-4d07-9530-03a818ef0104/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_30","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"36","height":3814,"width":2381,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/42c62a4d-df99-4d52-8baa-fcd4b05538ff/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/42c62a4d-df99-4d52-8baa-fcd4b05538ff","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3814,"width":2381},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_30","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"that my fears in this respect were not groundless, and that had I   attempted the route above specified, I should probably have sunk   under it before it was half completed.     Fear was ready soon after my return to our hotel, and I partook of   it with a relish.  Mr. Hull had not yet arrived.  As it was not yet   quite dark, I thought I would pay one more visit to the Battery.    After sitting awhile in the cool breeze, I noticed that the entrance   of Castle Garden was open, and I concluded to go in and see the   place.  A notice posted at the gate informed me that a shilling   (ninepence) entitled a visiter to the liberty of inspecting the   premises, and also to refreshments.  I paid the fee and took a ticket   at the door.  On each side of the inner entrance were the   refreshment rooms - the one on the left containing spirits, cigars,   &c. – and"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/42c62a4d-df99-4d52-8baa-fcd4b05538ff/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_31","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"37","height":3830,"width":2356,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/72893914-cf38-4d71-b978-9a2761a24ee1/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/72893914-cf38-4d71-b978-9a2761a24ee1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3830,"width":2356},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_31","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the one on the right furnished in a little nicer style, and containing   soda and Rochelle waters, cakes, &c.  Few persons can feel   themselves entitled to partake of things of this kind and entirely   refrain, even though their better judgment may tell them that   abstinence would be the wisest course.  I felt that I was subject at   times to this common failing, and that I was even then under its   influence.  I allowed myself but a moderate indulgence, however,   of soda and cake, and though I would take the rest of my money’s   worth in wandering about and examining the establishment. - The   ground included within Castle Garden is a circular space, probably   of about 7 or 8 hundred feet circumference, neatly paved — a   fountain with its gaping fishes’ mouths in the centre, not however   then playing, and a large and beautiful glass lamp over the   fountain.  They were first lighting the gas lamps when I entered.    This one"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/72893914-cf38-4d71-b978-9a2761a24ee1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_32","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"38","height":3824,"width":2354,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8bb4f7fb-3b94-4e7b-ae30-e83af4b3bd41/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/8bb4f7fb-3b94-4e7b-ae30-e83af4b3bd41","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3824,"width":2354},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_32","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"in the centre consisted of various branches of tubes for the gas,   each one with an orifice at the end, and by means of some   machinery within or underneath, these were all revolving in   different directions, some horizontally, others perpendicularly, &c.   which gave to the burning gas, as it was emitted from them, as   singularly striking and beautiful appearance.  Around this circular   space are two galleries, one above the other, and the lowest fifteen   or twenty feet from the ground.  Below the galleries, and around   the circle, are little apartments apparently for the accommodation   of those parties or individuals who prefer taking their refreshments   in a more retired situation than can be enjoyed in the bar room.    Projecting from the floor of the lower gallery are glass lamps,   variously and fancifully colored, which are also supplied with gas.    On ascending to the galleries, I perceived at once the noble"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8bb4f7fb-3b94-4e7b-ae30-e83af4b3bd41/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_33","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"39","height":3825,"width":2375,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ffa65ab3-d81c-4362-88f0-ade268f5872d/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/ffa65ab3-d81c-4362-88f0-ade268f5872d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3825,"width":2375},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_33","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"situation of the establishment for a summer retreat.  The waves of   the sea boat against its southern and western sides, and a fine view   of a beautiful expanse of water, and Staten Island and Hoboken   beyond, is presented to the gaze of the spectator.  There is hardly a   spot in Boston to be compared with this, for the enjoyment of a   pure southern or western breeze.  The intervening watery element  frees it from all the dust and other impurities of the neighboring   country, and imparts to it a portion of its own refreshing properties.    A band of music was performing in one of the galleries.  Seats are   furnished throughout this establishment, both above and below,   and an immense number of persons, 8 or 10,000 it is said, can be   accommodated with a sight of any spectacle on the enclosed   ground.  An ascent in a balloon was to take place from this spot on   the following Wednesday.  I must not omit to mention, although I   may"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ffa65ab3-d81c-4362-88f0-ade268f5872d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_34","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"4","height":3814,"width":2439,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b24bd57e-d6a6-4a1f-ad9b-7de390b479b1/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/b24bd57e-d6a6-4a1f-ad9b-7de390b479b1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3814,"width":2439},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_34","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"ton Common; but its inferiority in this respect is perhaps more than   made up by its being situated on the water — as about one half its   border comes in immediate contact with the sea. This, however,   renders it damp during the evenings and nights, especially when   the wind is south.  During a hot summer’s day it is the most   delightful and agreeable retreat that one can well imagine.  – It lies   on the west side of the southern extremity of the city, and is well   supplied with large and shady trees, and that part of its outside   which is not next the water has a high and elegant iron fence   separating it from the adjoining streets.  Seats are placed side of   the paths which cross it in different directions, and along the   margin of the water.  A durable stone wall below, and a wooden   fence above, protect the part next the sea, by the side of which is   the widest and most frequented walk.  The land on the other side of   the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b24bd57e-d6a6-4a1f-ad9b-7de390b479b1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_35","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"40","height":3832,"width":2362,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dbe6ea01-62ff-49d6-81ec-a1c6e2503aa4/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/dbe6ea01-62ff-49d6-81ec-a1c6e2503aa4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3832,"width":2362},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_35","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"incur by it the charge of sentimentalism, that in the person of the   little girl of 13 or 14 who officiated in the soda room, I saw almost   the only perfect specimen of female beauty that my eyes had for a   long while rested upon.  The really handsome expression of her   countenance was increased, perhaps, by an occurrence which had   just taken place, and which thus gave me an opportunity of   witnessing what is universally admitted to be an interesting sight   — viz. “beauty in tears.”  The master of the establishment was   severely reproving her for something she had done, and the tear   drops which freely flowed from eyes intelligent and expressive   beyond her years, and watered cheeks that united the   thoughtfulness of maturity with the juvenile and innocent   expressions of early girlhood, bespoke a heart formed in unison   with her outward beautiful and interesting features. – I walked"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dbe6ea01-62ff-49d6-81ec-a1c6e2503aa4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_36","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"41","height":3824,"width":2363,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6fd6ff9c-32d1-4e8b-9ad6-d10e1da9506f/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/6fd6ff9c-32d1-4e8b-9ad6-d10e1da9506f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3824,"width":2363},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_36","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"around Castle Garden, up stairs and down, till the evening was   considerably advanced, and the fresh south wind began to be   uncomfortably chilly.  After quitting it, I rambled leisurely for a   spell over the Battery, among the crowd of people with which it   was thronged, and amused myself with noticing the many pleasure   boats which were skimming over the water and along the margin   of the steep and stony shore, and admiring the skill and dexterity   with which they were guided in their playful manoeuvres.  On   reaching the hotel, I found Mr. Hull had just returned, having been   looking round the city in search of some of his old friends.  After   partaking lightly of the cold supper which was spread in the dining   room at nine o’clock, we repaired to our chamber, which we   ascertained had been removed according to promise, into the story   below the one we occupied the preceding"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6fd6ff9c-32d1-4e8b-9ad6-d10e1da9506f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_37","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"42","height":3813,"width":2359,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3fdf0bab-7f7c-4330-a06d-aa6c5e40e01c/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/3fdf0bab-7f7c-4330-a06d-aa6c5e40e01c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3813,"width":2359},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_37","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"night, and was cooler and therefore more comfortable than the   former. Mr. Hull had concluded to return by the way of   Connecticut, and was to take passage at 6 o’clock in the morning   in the steamboat to New Haven.  I was to start at 7 in the boat for   Albany.  We had a pretty good night’s rest — were awake and up   betimes in the morning, and had finished shaving, and packing up   our things, when the waiter called for Mr. H. who was soon in   readiness to repair to the boat.  On coming down stairs, I found   that the Mr. Huntington, of Connecticut, already referred to, was to   take passage in the same boat with myself.  He was making   arrangements to have himself and wife and baggage carried down   to the vessel in a coach, but on inquiring of the driver who was   stationed with one opposite the hotel door, he found that he   charged more than he was willing to give, and he at"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3fdf0bab-7f7c-4330-a06d-aa6c5e40e01c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_38","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"43","height":3831,"width":2357,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0094f1b6-712c-44d3-b5f7-82f53aae608f/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/0094f1b6-712c-44d3-b5f7-82f53aae608f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3831,"width":2357},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_38","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"length concluded that he would let the cartman belonging to the   house carry down his baggage with mine, and that he and his wife   would walk.  Having both of us given directions accordingly, he   and his wife started, and left me to see that the trunks were   attended to.  I had settled with the barkeeper the preceding   evening, and it was now nearly seven o’clock, and there was   nothing to detain me but to see the baggage safely started.  At   length, after waiting very impatiently, and scolding at the waiter   and the cartman rather more than suited their humor, I at length   had the pleasure of seeing Mr. H’s and my own trunk, placed in the   cart at the door.  But the man was not yet ready to set off with him.    It seemed there was another individual in the house who was also   going to sail with us, and who was not yet prepared.  My patience   being entirely"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0094f1b6-712c-44d3-b5f7-82f53aae608f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_39","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"44","height":3823,"width":2373,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/17cd28c4-405c-4858-9c60-e1794fb21396/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/17cd28c4-405c-4858-9c60-e1794fb21396","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3823,"width":2373},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_39","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"exhausted, I walked slowly from the hotel, being unwilling to lose   sight of my trunk, and almost curing the lazy, stupid fellow, who   had had the whole of a summer morning at his disposal, and was   not now, at 7 o’clock, in readiness to move.  If he had been waiting   to finish his breakfast I should have had a little charity for the man;   but no breakfast was furnished in the hotel before 8 o’clock, and   none of us were to enjoy the pleasure of one, till we enjoyed it on   board the steamboat North America, on her passage up the Hudson   River.  Just as I had reached the greatest distance at which I could   see the cart containing my trunk, I observed a person come out of   the hotel and take one of the trunks from the cart into the house.  I   was fearful something was wrong and immediately retraced my   steps.  On reaching the door, I saw that my baggage had been taken   away,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/17cd28c4-405c-4858-9c60-e1794fb21396/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_40","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"45","height":3825,"width":2405,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3b12683c-c83e-4a40-9c1d-6f2303e58b53/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/3b12683c-c83e-4a40-9c1d-6f2303e58b53","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3825,"width":2405},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_40","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"and on entering the Hotel I found it in the entry.  I inquired of the   waiters, in no very good humor, why my trunk was brought back,   and ascertained that it was by mistake, though I was not fully   informed as to the cause of it.  After seeing it again deposited in   the porter’s hand cart, and telling him that we should all of us lose   our passage if he tarried much longer, I again walked towards the   boat, and soon had the pleasure of seeing him also start with his   load.  But it seemed as though I and my baggage were never to   arrive safely at our destination; for I had scarcely reached the   bottom of Beekman St. with the porter close behind me, when a   little boy belonging to the hotel came running after us, and stopped   the man, though I was not quite near enough to hear why.  Seeing   that they were examining the trunks, and apprehensive that there   was to be more difficulty, I stepped back to learn the cause of the   delay."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3b12683c-c83e-4a40-9c1d-6f2303e58b53/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_41","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"46","height":3841,"width":2369,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ba991ccd-6c6a-4003-89f2-fbf8cd46b55f/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/ba991ccd-6c6a-4003-89f2-fbf8cd46b55f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3841,"width":2369},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_41","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"I could procure no satisfactory explanation, however, for to my   inquiry if anything was the matter, they merely answered in the   negative, while their looks showed that they were not perfectly   convinced all was right.  I begged the cartman not to stop in the   street without any cause, when the time for the boat to start was   already passed.  He again hurried forward, and we were soon in the   midst of a scene of the greatest hurry and confusion I had yet   witnessed.  One would almost have thought that half the city were   pressing forward to embark for Albany.  The street for some   distance either way was crowded with every species of carriages,   and with porters, passengers and baggage.  It was with difficulty   that our trunks were urged through the crowd; and when they had   arrived within a reasonable distance of the boat, the last atom of   my usually small stock"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ba991ccd-6c6a-4003-89f2-fbf8cd46b55f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_42","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"47","height":3841,"width":2424,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/50be206b-ae88-41a2-8117-c7fe90216d8e/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/50be206b-ae88-41a2-8117-c7fe90216d8e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3841,"width":2424},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_42","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"of patience was exhausted, and I snatched my own trunk from the   cart, and putting a small piece of money into the hands of the   cartman, I pressed through the mass of men and carriages, hurried   across the plank from the wharf to the boat, and stopped not till I   found upon deck a room for baggage with the label upon the door,   “Baggage for Albany.”  Into this room I saw my trunk safely   deposited; and now, I thought to myself, I am safely on board and   will take my ease.  But, to complete my list of troubles with the   waiters of the hotel, I had no sooner seated myself on the upper   deck of the boat, than I saw the porter who had already vexed me   beyond all reasonable endurance, coming up the stairs and making   towards me.  I could do no less than hear what he had to say, for I   saw he was about to speak to me.  The boy, he said, had been sent   to tell him, that one of the men from Boston had come away"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/50be206b-ae88-41a2-8117-c7fe90216d8e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_43","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"48","height":3814,"width":2380,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/62312ea2-6620-4bd0-aaab-a3f6527a817a/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/62312ea2-6620-4bd0-aaab-a3f6527a817a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3814,"width":2380},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_43","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"from the hotel without settling his bill; and though he did not ask   me in direct terms if I was the man, he stood waiting apparently for   me to inform him.  Although I felt angry enough with the   provoking rascal to knock him overboard, I perceived the propriety   of making as little noise about it as possible, for we were   surrounded with hundreds of persons who would be as likely to   consider me guilty as innocent of the crime which the porter   pretended to believe had been committed.  I therefore informed   him as calmly as possible that he was certainly mistaken so far as I   was concerned; for I had settled at the evening previous.  The   barkeeper also knew that I was coming away when I did — and I   thought it very singular that he should suffer me to leave without   settling my bill, and send after me when half a mile distant.  I   assured him that there was no mistake about it, and in fact he did   not appear to think there was; and I soon perceived"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/62312ea2-6620-4bd0-aaab-a3f6527a817a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_44","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"49","height":3814,"width":2413,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/97f5fb05-ca05-4d5e-bb33-3b784ce5d940/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/97f5fb05-ca05-4d5e-bb33-3b784ce5d940","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3814,"width":2413},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_44","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"that this story about my board was only an excuse for introducing   another subject which I had forgotten, and which my hasty retreat   from him prevented his attending to when we first reached the   wharf; for he immediately placed his mouth towards my ear, and   uttered in a tone as serious and as supplicating as he could well   assume – “I hope you won’t forget the boot-cleaner.”  I recollected   that I had my boots cleaned the preceding night, and I could not   therefore avoid giving the fellow his due, - but after all that had   taken place I was determined it should be no more than his due.  I   accordingly handed him the smallest Spanish piece of silver coin in   circulation, and though he appeared to show a little disappointment   on receiving it, he nevertheless thanked me, and took his leave.  I   did not exactly send my curses after him, but I placed upon his   shoulders, in imagination, nearly all the unpleasant circumstances I   had experienced in New-York, and there they still remain!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/97f5fb05-ca05-4d5e-bb33-3b784ce5d940/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_45","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"5","height":3844,"width":2381,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/355e87f0-fb9b-4cf2-8506-09e815d8345e/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/355e87f0-fb9b-4cf2-8506-09e815d8345e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3844,"width":2381},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_45","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"water, from this place, which is in full view though at some   distance, is that of the State of New Jersey.  Hoboken — a thriving   town — a place of fashionable resort, and celebrated as the spot on   which the lamented Hamilton fell in a duel by the hand of Aaron   Burr, - is plainly seen.  Castle Garden — owned by a private   company — but open to all visiters on the payment of a small fee   at the gate, projects from the south end of the Battery.  As I had a   desire to see the inside of some of the New York Churches, we   concluded to take a walk to the Catholic Cathedral, which is said to   by very splendidly fitted up — judging that we should arrive there   about the time the afternoon service was concluded.  On coming to   the door of the Church we saw that the gate of the burial ground,   adjoining, was open, and that two men were engaged in digging   graves.  We walked in to see this last resting place of many a poor   and friendless Catholic, whose bones here repose in peace, though"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/355e87f0-fb9b-4cf2-8506-09e815d8345e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_46","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"50","height":3828,"width":2359,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5c83c324-dba4-4b5a-8716-f9fff205ecea/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/5c83c324-dba4-4b5a-8716-f9fff205ecea","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3828,"width":2359},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_46","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"I had been fortunate in taking passage on board the best boat of the   line from Providence to New York (the Boston), and the same   good luck had again attended me in being able to ascend the   “Noble Hudson” in the “North America,” the best vessel on the   river, and said to be the swiftest sailer in the country. - I continued   my seat on the upper deck while the preparations to start were   making, and in the meantime I must say a few words more about   the great city of which I was now to take my leave.  – The City of   New York possesses advantages, in regard to situation, which are   enjoyed by no other city in the United States, - with the exception,   perhaps, of New Orleans.  Between her and the Old World there   are no impediments but the broad Atlantic and a trifling projection   of Long Island — which latter, however, contributes much to the   defence and the safety of the City.  Connected with this freedom of   intercourse with foreign"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5c83c324-dba4-4b5a-8716-f9fff205ecea/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_47","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"51","height":3840,"width":2372,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0451e00-8139-4d0e-bfba-d75b1dba3f54/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/e0451e00-8139-4d0e-bfba-d75b1dba3f54","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3840,"width":2372},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_47","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"countries, she has facilities of communication with the almost   boundless extent of territory on the American continent, which   give to the first its chief importance, and in a thousand other ways   contribute to her commercial prosperity.  By means of the Hudson   River to Albany, and the Great Canal thence to Lake Erie, almost   the whole of her own extended state is opened to her; and not only   this, but even Ohio, and the other rising States and territories of the   Northwest, are brought near to her, and made to pour into her lap   the rich and varied productions of their soil.  Produce from   Vermont, and from the western parts of Massachusetts and   Connecticut, also float down the Hudson, and contribute to   increase the business and the wealth of her inhabitants. – By the   way of Philadelphia, from which it is distant but one day’s journey,   a trade is furnished her with the middle and western states; and   along the whole coast,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0451e00-8139-4d0e-bfba-d75b1dba3f54/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_48","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"52","height":3807,"width":2371,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/154414e7-c272-494b-b5ae-cc83166043a6/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/154414e7-c272-494b-b5ae-cc83166043a6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3807,"width":2371},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_48","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"from Maine to Georgia, her coasters find an entrance into every   port.  The treasures, therefore, of every part of our country, are   consumed by her inhabitants, or temporarily deposited in their   warehouses.  The character of the citizens of New York is such as   might be expected in such a place.  Coming from every quarter of   the world, there is in their physical appearance each grade of color,   form and gait; and in their moral and intellectual character there is   developed every trait, both good and bad, which human nature, in   all its wonderful and varied capacity, can possibly exhibit.  There   is in such a congregated mass of various characters, therefore, a   full harvest of the corresponding variety of fruit which such a   mass, in constant motion and exertion, must in some degree   everywhere produce; and we find New York to be the source   whence have sprung some of the most benevolent and phi-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/154414e7-c272-494b-b5ae-cc83166043a6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_49","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"53","height":3837,"width":2395,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ecc275f-ead8-492f-843c-376a14ffa75e/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/4ecc275f-ead8-492f-843c-376a14ffa75e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3837,"width":2395},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_49","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"lanthropic public charities which distinguish our country and the   age in which we live — as well as of much of the guilt in the long   and dark list of crimes and offenses which are equally prominent   on the gloomy catalogue of our national sins.  But though one feels   in a large city that he is thus in the midst of all that honors and   disgraces human nature, yet he feels also that, when no public   commotion is violently agitating the civil waves, and threatening   danger and destruction, it is a place which possesses a thousand   advantages over a thinly-settled town or village, connected   however with some, perhaps many, disadvantages. I have not time,   nor will my limits allow me, to enter into the comparative merits of   town and country; but I will refer to one particular in which, in my   own experience at least, the former is superior to the latter, - and   that is, the comparative retirement in which one may live, with out,   at the same time, secluding him-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ecc275f-ead8-492f-843c-376a14ffa75e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_50","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"54","height":3795,"width":2367,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2927d8be-3d9d-49e1-8967-b4d2f7053c50/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/2927d8be-3d9d-49e1-8967-b4d2f7053c50","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3795,"width":2367},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_50","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"self in such a manner from the healthy excitement of passing   events and social intercourse, as to injure either his physical or   moral faculties.  In the city, if a man is so disposed, he can without   attracting notice or inviting scorn and contempt, separate himself   from a participation in the thousand disagreeable and useless   customs and practices of every community (at least disagreeable   and useless to himself), to a degree which, in the country, would   shut him out of the pale of civilized society, and fix upon him a   public ban which would be as galling and as corroding as that of a   proscribed outlaw.  The ten thousand little scandalous and   worthless reports and suspicions arising from a variety of other   causes, which in a country village form the very aliment of a   certain class, and are partaken of and enjoyed to a greater or less   extent by the whole community — though little, producing great   effects — and though worthless, circulating the more freely, and   attaching themselves the more readily and conspicuously"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2927d8be-3d9d-49e1-8967-b4d2f7053c50/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_51","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"55","height":3818,"width":2389,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c90900c3-8586-4e6c-9610-b2e0f0a13013/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/c90900c3-8586-4e6c-9610-b2e0f0a13013","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3818,"width":2389},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_51","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"to the fair fame of the unsuspecting victim; - all these, with their   grim train of attendants clothed in the Satanic livery, and equipped   from the cerebrean armory, have no “local habitation” in the city   — are not known even by name.  – But for all this, I will not   indiscriminately condemn the country; for it has been said by a   poet who knew how to separate its sweet from its bitter, that God is   its Maker, while the building of cities, he has assigned to an   infinitely humbler being.  Yes, - the green grass and the rippling   rill of the country — the richly-covered and sloping hills and the   fruitful vales — the sweet songster of the grove, the fragrant   perfume, and the beautifully variegated coloring of the landscape   — the broad flowing river and the majestic mountain forest — the   silence of nature, rendered more delightfully impressive by the still   small voices of the whispering breeze and the babbling brook —  and let me add last, though not of minor im-"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c90900c3-8586-4e6c-9610-b2e0f0a13013/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_52","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"56","height":3825,"width":2395,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0387f69-4614-4fb8-944b-85884cf0a2f1/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/e0387f69-4614-4fb8-944b-85884cf0a2f1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3825,"width":2395},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_52","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"portance, the happy and pious houses and firesides in “huts where   poor men lie,” for such homes are to be found — group all these   together and exclude everything that tends to mar the beauty of one   of these pictures, and we may indeed speak of them with delighted   enthusiasm, and exclaim, “God made the country!” — But I am   making but little progress, I find, in what I intended to say of the   city of New York.  – The City Hall, which is considered the finest   building in the place, is built of the beautiful marble from the   quarries in West Stockbridge.  It stands in the Park, which is a   beautifully enclosed space bordering on Broadway.  I did not have   an opportunity to enter the building, but I understood that from the   cupola there was a beautiful prospect of the whole extent of the   city.  In regard to the general appearance of the interior of New   York, no information of any importance can be given to one who is   conversant with Boston.  These"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0387f69-4614-4fb8-944b-85884cf0a2f1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_53","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"57","height":3819,"width":2425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d3cb5935-89bb-4d0e-b273-9ac3bae1dc23/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/d3cb5935-89bb-4d0e-b273-9ac3bae1dc23","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3819,"width":2425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_53","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"are differences, to be sure; but they are mostly such as would   require seeking in order to be noticed.  I noticed a trifling   peculiarity in the construction of the blinds of the buildings.  The   slats were universally moveable, and by means of wires could be   so arranged as to suffer the light to enter between them from   above, or to allow a person to look straight forward from the   window; or down, as in ours. – The shades of sail cloth over the   sidewalks were supported by posts placed on the junction of the   sidewalk and pavement. - The bakers carry around their bread in a   much less convenient and handsome carriage than the neat carts   used for the purpose in Boston.  A long and narrow waggon is   made use of, uncovered, and containing three or four large baskets,   capable of holding several bushels a piece, in which are placed the   different kinds of bread.  The milk men also carry their milk on the   same principle, having only two large cans in their carts, which are   likewise"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d3cb5935-89bb-4d0e-b273-9ac3bae1dc23/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_54","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"58","height":3829,"width":2353,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cf98e7fd-473c-4aca-be9e-3eac037184dc/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/cf98e7fd-473c-4aca-be9e-3eac037184dc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3829,"width":2353},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_54","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"uncovered.  The cans are made of tin, the mouth but little smaller   than the body, and a dipper with a long handle, in which the milk is   measured, is made use of.  The can is lifted out and placed on the   sidewalk, and a vessel to contain the milk wanted is brought out   from each house by the servant or some one of the family. — I   could perceive but little difference between the number of people   moving in the streets here and in Boston.  A great number, of   citizens however were absent, and at another season of the year the   appearance in this respect might be very different. —  Many interesting recollections are associated with the name of   New York City in the mind of one acquainted with the events she   has witnessed since the different States have been united under one   common government.  One of the most affecting to which I can   refer, is the farewell between Washington and the other officers of   the Army"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cf98e7fd-473c-4aca-be9e-3eac037184dc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_55","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"59","height":3809,"width":2405,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2b0c27e6-7162-4113-80c5-fa57dfbc4443/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/2b0c27e6-7162-4113-80c5-fa57dfbc4443","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3809,"width":2405},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_55","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"at the close of the Revolutionary War.  I have read the account of it   in my youthful days with feelings which it is impossible for me to   describe.  The emotion which he is represented to have exhibited   when he grasped the hand of Knox, the tears which fell from his   eyes as he took his seat in the boat which was to convey him to   Powles’ Hook, and the silence in which he and they waved their   handkerchiefs as he left the shore, would be touching under any   circumstances and shown by any individuals.  It was in this City,   too, and in the old Federal Hall, that the same individual took his   solemn oath of office after having been chosen the first President   of the Country to whose salvation he had so largely contributed. - -   But I must take my leave of New York.  The passengers are all on   board the North America, the bell having been rung three times;   the fastenings are loosened; the steam which has been rumbling   and hissing for a long time, is suffered to propel the machinery; the   wheels are let down"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2b0c27e6-7162-4113-80c5-fa57dfbc4443/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_56","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"6","height":3826,"width":2404,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a4c48d27-3133-4352-93e5-6f31fb92696e/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/a4c48d27-3133-4352-93e5-6f31fb92696e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3826,"width":2404},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_56","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"far away from friends and kindred.  The men who were at work   were Irish.  They were digging holes for graves, without shape, and   almost without length or breadth.  One of them was side of a fence,   and appeared to be for a child, but even a child’s coffin could   hardly be placed in it in any other position than endways.  A body,   the man said, had been buried a few days before under the grave he   was now digging!  While we were looking around at the   gravestones, and reading the names and epitaphs upon them, and   noticing that the place of nativity of each of the sleepers beneath   was appended to his name — and also that the head and foot stones   faced the same way, the latter containing the name only, - the   hearse arrived at the gate.  We stepped a little one side for the   procession to enter; but instead of a procession, men and women   came flocking in, without any regularity, and apparently in great   haste, even before the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a4c48d27-3133-4352-93e5-6f31fb92696e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_57","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"60","height":3792,"width":2322,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0c58f9a-1956-4704-948f-1fe7babeb3de/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/e0c58f9a-1956-4704-948f-1fe7babeb3de","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3792,"width":2322},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_57","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"and the steamer begins to move on her passage up the Hudson, the   incidents of which must be recorded in another volume.*    *NOTE: This final page does not appear to be apart of the original   document.  The page was clearly pasted over another page, whose   characters can be seen when placed up to the light."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0c58f9a-1956-4704-948f-1fe7babeb3de/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_58","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"7","height":3813,"width":2370,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/836b551b-b1dc-4e64-987a-a35be3c0fd29/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/836b551b-b1dc-4e64-987a-a35be3c0fd29","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3813,"width":2370},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_58","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"corpse was brought in.  Having entered a few steps they all —   men, women, and children — dropped down on one or both knees,   and muttered over a few hasty and indistinct words.  As there were   many thus engaged, and as they all seemed desirous of performing   the ceremony as soon as possible after coming inside the gate, they   almost literally tumbled over each other.  I could not decide   whether it was from the zeal of their devotion, a desire to go   through the ceremony as quickly as possible, or from a wish to   secure a place as near as possible to the grave when the corpse   should be lowered — but certain it was that they all seemed in a   great haste.  We stood looking at the scene, which though in itself   a mournful one, was rendered far otherwise by the ceremonies not   being performed “decently and in order,” until the coffin was   brought in, which was also done with out much regard to propriety.    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When they entered the graveyard and   came near the place where we were standing, we were assailed by   a very offensive smell from the corpse.  We immediately   commenced a hasty retreat; for in addition to the odor being   unpleasant we were fearful we might derive from it, as we knew   not the disease of which the person died, - the seeds of some   contagious disorder.  We left the place with such precipitation, that   we actually omitted through forgetfulness the very thing for which   we went there — the viewing the inside of the Cathedral. - We   now walked down into Broadway, and turned towards home.  It   was late in the afternoon and much cooler, and the number of   people in the street had greatly increased.  One circumstance only   struck me very forcibly in"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/af86a7ba-67ec-4812-9d2c-488355401044/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_60","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"9","height":3827,"width":2368,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/761f4a83-9a15-4b7c-aa42-4b04d661d42a/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/761f4a83-9a15-4b7c-aa42-4b04d661d42a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":3827,"width":2368},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c3d5ae06-dfda-40ea-817e-35b9ff7f7f32/canvas/_60","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"returning to our hotel, and that was that of the people we met in   Broadway more than half of them seemed to be Blacks.  It is   estimated, I believe, that these 18000 colored inhabitants in the   City; and it may therefore well be imagined, that on the only day in   the week they can be spared generally during any part of it, and   especially at a season of the year when a great number of the   whites are absent, their numbers will appear disproportionably   large.  The intense heat of the day, likewise, had tended to increase   their number.  This class of people seem to be employed, almost to   the exclusion of the whites, as servants, in all the public places,   and in many private families.  On board all the steamboats, I   believe, they are the only servants and waiters and cooks.  In the   City most of them are probably kept at home Sabbath forenoons,   and in the afternoon they are at leisure.  Many of them doubtless"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/761f4a83-9a15-4b7c-aa42-4b04d661d42a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cb4d8d27-d9e5-4fe2-a51e-23cb72c0ea89/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}