CONTENTS

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I. Narrative of John F. D. Smyth: 1769-1775[ 9]
II. Anburey, and the Convention Army in Virginia: 1779[ 23]
III. The Abbé Robin, One of the Chaplains to the French Army in America: 1781[ 31]
IV. The Marquis of Chastellux, Major-General in the French Army and Member of the French Academy: 1782 [ 39]
V. Dr. Schoepf, Surgeon to the Hessian Troops (Ansbach-Bayreuth Division): 1783[ 49]
VI. Count Castiglioni, Chevalier of the Order of St. Stephen, P. M.: 1786[ 61]
VII. Missionary Journeys of Dr. Coke: 1785-1791[ 71]
VIII. A Summer at Bath—Captain Bayard: 1791[ 81]
IX. What Isaac Weld Saw: 1796[ 91]
X. The Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt: 1796[ 111]
XI. John Davis of Salisbury: 1801-1802[ 123]
List of Travels[ 137]

I.

NARRATIVE OF JOHN F. D. SMYTH.

1769-1775.

Captain Smyth—The Capes and Jamestown—Williamsburg and the Races—Richmond—Music of the Bullfrog—Blandford—Petersburg—Swede’s Bridge—Hicks’s Bridge—Mr. Willis—James River Lowgrounds—Summer Routine of the Planter. North Carolina—The Lower Sawra Towns—Journey to Kentucky—Indian Braves—Fort on Smith’s River—The Wart Mountain: Amazing Perspective—Judge Henderson’s Settlement.