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A year's residence, in the United States of America. Treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of housekeeping, and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and of the institutions of the country, civil, political, and religious. In three parts. / By William Cobbett.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 C6368 818y 1819
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Agriculture--United States.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 610 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plate. : map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Cobbett's year's residence in America
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Description of the situation and extent of Long Island, and also of the face of the country, and an account of the climate, seasons, and soil. Ruta baga. Culture, mode of preserving, and uses of ruta baga, sometimes called the Russia, and sometimes the Swedish, turnip
- pt. 2. Experiments as to cabbages. Earth-burning. Transplanting Indian corn. Swedish turnips. Potatoes. Cows, sheep, hogs, and poultry. Prices of land, labour, working cattle, husbandry implements. Expenses of housekeeping. Manners, customs, and character of the people. Rural sports. Paupers and beggars. Government, laws and religion
- pt. 3. Mr. Hulme's Journal, made during a tour in the western countries of America, in which tour he visited Mr. Birkbeck's settlement. Mr. Cobbett's letters to Mr. Birkbeck, remonstrating with that Gentleman on the numerous delusions, contained in his two publications, entitled "Notes on a journey in America" and "Letters from Illinois." Postscript, being the detail of an experiment made in the cultivation of ruta baga. Second postscript, a refutation of Fearon's falsehoods.
- Notes:
- "General Preface to the Three Parts": signed Wm. Cobbett, North Hempsted, Long Island, 21st April, 1818 (p. [i]-viii).
- Parts 2 and 3 without 2nd edition note; title varies slightly.
- Each part has separate title page; parts 2 and 3 have imprint: Printed for Sherwood, Nelly and Jones, Paternoster-Row. 1819. Paged continuously.
- Includes index to part 1.
- OCLC:
- 1612038
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