Vol. 2 contains the journal of the author's voyage down the river, in a skiff. The account of means of early navigation is graphic.
Flint, Timothy. Recollections of the last ten years. Boston, 1826.
There is no better account of boats, and river life generally, in 1814-15, the time of Flint's voyage.
Fearon, Henry Bradshaw. Sketches of America [1817]. London, 1819.
Palmer, John. Journal of travels in the United States of North America [1817]. London, 1818.
Evans, Estwick. A pedestrian tour [1818] of four thousand miles through the Western states and territories. Concord, N. H., 1819.
Birkbeck, Morris. Notes on a journey in America, from the coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. London, 1818.
The author traveled, in 1817, by light wagon from Richmond to Pittsburg; and from Pittsburg to Cincinnati by horseback. This book, interesting for economic conditions, together with the author's "Letters from Illinois," did much to inspire emigration to Illinois from England. His English colony, at English Prairie, Ill., was much visited by travelers of the period.
Faux, W. Journal of a tour to the United States [in 1819].
Excellent pictures of American life and agricultural methods, by an English gentleman farmer. Attacks Birkbeck's roseate views.