Contents.

BOOK I. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE,

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West Point

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Uncommon Self Possession

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Stupendous Cavern

Extracts from a Traveller's Port Folio

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Bunker-Hill

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National Burying Ground

The Indians

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The Beaver Hunter

Indians at Washington

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Sarah Bishop

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The Fall of Tecumseh

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Geebale-An Indian Lamento

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The Snow Storm

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Braddock's Defeat

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The Chair of the Indian King

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The Fall of Niagara

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Poetical Descriptions of Trees, Birds, Beasts, &c. &c. writ-

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Connecticut

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BOOK II. FICTITIOUS, MORAL, AND SENTIMENTAL.

The Captive Boy

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Vicissitudes of Fortune

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The Graves of the Forest

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New-England Superstitions

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Rachel's Curse

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Thomas Weston

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The Aged African

Debt and Credit

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Suicide

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Ambition

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Life and its Uses

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Education

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The Church-Yard

Learning and Manners

New-Year's Day

Respice Futurum

The Shad Spirit

The Requiem

A man of Sorrows

Recollections of Childhood

The Snail

The Butterfly

Reflections at Sea

A Dying Mother to her Erring Daughter

The Lunatic Girl

Maternal Musings

The Last Repose

BOOK III. HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL.

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Celebration of the Fourth of July at home, by an Old Sol-

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The Gallant Yankee

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Interior of the Earth

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Mnemonics

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Art of Rising

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drt of Civility

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A Stage Coach

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Short Answers

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Dress

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Classical Hair Dressing

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Short Jackets

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Law Intelligence

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Horace vs. Virgil

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Miller vs. Tompkins

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Western Wit

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A Sailor's Petition

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Stupidity vs. Genius

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Important Duel

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Gulling

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Difficulty of Pleasing every body

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Commencement at Yale College

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Shaking Hands

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The Crah and the Oyster

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Sam Jones—Parody on the Knight Errant

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Peter Twink-Parody on a Parody

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The Sham Action

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The Gathering

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Visit to the Cotton Factories

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Visit to Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving

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Ezekiel and the Deacon

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Powers of Rhyme

Black vs. Blue

BOOK IV. BIOGRAPHICAL AND OBITUARY.

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New-England Skies

Map of Life

Fatal Affection

Art of Flying

Mr. Bennett's Petition to Congress

The Flying Man

Lawyers and Ministers

The Deaf and Dumb

Credulity

Learning

Bartholomew Curtis

The Rapids of Love

Love at the Capuchin Chapel

Love at the Races

Love at the Jockey-Club

Bail

Love Asleep

Love's Billet-doux

The Decay of Love

Love's Benediction

The Coral Grove

The Mermaid's Song

Holiday Presents

The Printer's Prayer

Liberty to Athens

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