Mirror for Americans : likeness of the eastern seaboard, 1810 / by Ralph H. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Ralph H. (Ralph Hall), 1898-1948.

Contributor:

American Geographical Society of New York.

Series:

Special publication (American Geographical Society of New York) ; no. 27.

American Geographical Society. Special publication ; no. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atlantic States--Description and travel.

Atlantic States.

Travel.

United States--Atlantic States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 x 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : American Geographical Society, 1943.

Contents:

Prologue. A gentleman of Philadelphia plans a concise account of the seaboard

Ch. 1. Natural traits

Ch. 2. A view of the population

Ch. 3. Ways of travel

Ch. 4. The principal occupations

Ch. 5. The maritime interests. River and inshore fisheries

The cod fisheries: tonnage and number of seamen

Effects of the Revolution

Shore and bank fisheries

Isle of shoals as example of shore fisheries

Description of banks

History of banks fishery

Present conduct of the fishery

The "Lydia" of Marblehead as example

Harbors of New England fleet: Gloucester, Marblehead, Newburyport

Salt making on Cape Cod

Whaling

Jefferson on the History of the whale fisheries

Tonnage engaged: New Bedford and Nantucket Pre-eminent

Shift of whaling to the Tropical Pacific

Voyage of Captain Worth in 1792

Products of whaling industry.

Notes:

An account of the period told as if written by Thomas Pownall Keystone, a fictitious character, presenting, as a composite observer, the contempomary scene.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-298) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Brown, Ralph H. (Ralph Hall), 1898-1948. Mirror for Americans.

OCLC:

256344