American Scenery, Vol. 1 (of 2) / or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature - Nathaniel Parker Willis

TO VOLUME I.

Ch.		Page
	Portrait of Mr. Bartlett. (Autographed)	[0]
1	Map of the North-Eastern Parts of the United States	[1]
2	Niagara Falls, from the Ferry	[4]
3	View from West Point	[6]
4	Trenton Falls, View down the Ravine	[8]
5	View from Mount Holyoke	[10]
6	The Outlet of Niagara River	[12]
7	The Palisades, Hudson River	[14]
8	The Rapids above the Falls of Niagara	[16]
9	Saratoga Lake	[18]
10	The Colonnade of Congress Hall, Saratoga Springs	[20]
11	Albany	[22]
12	Crow’s Nest, from Bull Hill, West Point	[24]
13	View below Table Rock	[26]
14	Lake Winipiseogee	[28]
15	Kosciusko’s Monument	[30]
16	The Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, with the Tower	[32]
17	The Narrows, at Staten Island	[34]
18	View of the Capitol at Washington	[36]
19	View of the Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga	[38]
20	View from Fort Putnam	[40]
21	View of State Street, Boston	[42]
22	Niagara Falls, from Clifton House	[45]
23	View from Hyde Park	[47]
24	Village of Sing-Sing	[49]
25	View from Ruggle’s House, Newburgh	[51]
26	Descent into the Valley of Wyoming	[53]
27	Boston, from Dorchester Heights	[55]
28	View of Faneuil Hall, Boston	[57]
29	New York Bay, from the Telegraph Station	[59]
30	Peekskill Landing	[61]
31	Lighthouse near Caldwell Landing	[63]
32	Harper’s Ferry, from the Potomac side	[65]
33	Caldwell, Lake George	[69]
34	Centre Harbour, Lake Winipiseogee	[71]
35	Yale College, at New Haven	[74]
36	Willey House—White Mountains	[76]
37	Battle Monument, Baltimore	[78]
38	Forest Scene on Lake Ontario	[80]
39	Viaduct on the Baltimore and Washington Rail-road	[82]
40	The Indian Falls near Coldspring	[85]
41	Columbia Bridge, over the Susquehanna	[87]
42	The Genessee Falls, Rochester	[89]
43	The Ferry at Brooklyn, New York	[91]
44	Rail-road to Utica, Little Falls	[93]
45	Utica	[96]
46	The Landing, on the American side, Falls of Niagara	[97]
47	View From Mount Washington	[99]
48	Mount Washington, and the White Hills	[101]
49	The Park and City Hall, New York	[103]
50	The Two Lakes, and the Mountain House on the Catskills	[105]
51	Trenton High Falls	[106]
52	The Valley of the Shenandoah, from Jefferson’s Rock	[108]
53	Lockport, Erie Canal	[110]
54	The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon	[113]
55	Black Mountain, Lake George	[115]
56	Valley of the Connecticut, from Mount Holyoke	[117]
57	View on the Erie Canal, near Little Falls	[119]
58	Hudson Highlands, from Bull Hill	[121]
59	Villa on the Hudson, near Weehawken	[123]
60	View of Meredith, New Hampshire	[125]
61	Ballston Springs	[128]
62	The Narrows, from Fort Hamilton	[130]
63	The Notch House, White Mountains	[132]
64	Wilkesbarre, Vale of Wyoming	[134]
65	Squawm Lake, New Hampshire	[136]
66	Sabbath-Day Point, Lake George	[138]

THE North Eastern Part OF THE UNITED STATES.

AMERICAN SCENERY.

It strikes the European traveller, at the first burst of the scenery of America on his eye, that the New World of Columbus is also a new world from the hand of the Creator. In comparison with the old countries of Europe, the vegetation is so wondrously lavish, the outlines and minor features struck out with so bold a freshness, and the lakes and rivers so even in their fulness and flow, yet so vast and powerful, that he may well imagine it an Eden newly sprung from the ocean. The Minerva-like birth of the republic of the United States, its sudden rise to independence, wealth, and power, and its continued and marvellous increase in population and prosperity, strike him with the same surprise, and leave the same impression of a new scale of existence, and a fresher and faster law of growth and accomplishment. The interest, with regard to both the natural and civilized features of America, has very much increased within a few years; and travellers, who have exhausted the unchanging countries of Europe, now turn their steps in great numbers to the novel scenery, and ever-shifting aspects of this.