[Letter XL.]—Paint on Brick Houses.—The New City of Lawrence.—Oak Grove.
[Letter XLI.]—Islands of Casco Bay.—The Building of Ships.—A Seal in the Kennebeck.—Augusta.—Multitude of Lakes.—Appearances of Thrift.
[Letter XLII.]—The Willey House.—Mount Washington.—Scenery of the White Mountains.—A Hen Mother of Puppies.
[Letter XLIII.]—Passage to Savannah.—Passengers in the Steamer.—Old Times in Connecticut.—Cape Hatteras.—Savannah.—Bonaventure.—Charleston.—Augusta.
[Letter XLIV.]—Southern Cotton Mills.—Factory Girls.—Somerville.
[Letter XLV.]—The Florida Coast.—Key West.—Dangerous Navigation.—A Hurricane and Flood.—Havana.
[Letter XLVI.]—Women of Cuba.—Airy Rooms.—Devotion of the Women.—Good Friday.—Cascarilla.—Cemetery of Havana.—Funerals.—Cock-fighting.—Valla de Gallos.—A Masked Ball.
[Letter XLVII.]—Scenery of Cuba.—Its Trees.—Sweet-Potato Plantation.—San Antonio de los Barios.—Black and Red Soil of Cuba.—A Coffee Estate.—Attire of the Cubans.
[Letter XLVIII.]—Matanzas.—Valley of Yumuri.—Cumbre.—Sugar Estate.—Process of its Manufacture.
[Letter XLIX.]—Negroes in Cuba.—Execution by the Garrote.—Slave Market.—African, Indian, and Asiatic Slaves.—Free Blacks in Cuba.—Annexation of Cuba to the United States.