Table of Contents
LETTER I.
Introduction
LETTER II.
On the situation, feelings, and pleasures, of an American farmer
LETTER III.
What is an American
LETTER IV.
Description of the island of Nantucket; with the manners, customs, policy, and trade, of the inhabitants
LETTER V.
Customary education and employment of the inhabitants of Nantucket
LETTER VI.
Description of the island of Martha’s Vineyard, and of the whale-fishery
LETTER VII.
Manners and customs at Nantucket
LETTER VIII.
Peculiar customs at Nantucket
LETTER IX.
Description of Charles-town; — thoughts on slavery;—on physical evil; — a melancholy scene
LETTER X.
On snakes and on the humming-bird
LETTER XI
From Mr. Iw — n Al — z, a Russian gentleman, describing a visit he paid, at my request, to Mr. John Bertram, the celebrated Pennsylvanian botanist
LETTER XII.
Distresses of a frontier-man