A journal of a tour in the United States of America; and notes on various information collected during the progress of it in the years 1794 and 1795, ca. 1805.

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A journal of a tour in the United States of America; and notes on various information collected during the progress of it in the years 1794 and 1795, ca. 1805.

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Journal, written ca. 1805, in 19 v., including one index volume, and a draft, ca. 1795, of his report to the Board of Agriculture in England, which was printed in London in 1801, under the title Observations on the agriculture of the United States of America. The journal, evidently a fair copy written later from notes taken during his trip, describes his voyage from Hull to New York on the Fair American, and continues with his tour south to Richmond, and north to the Hudson Valley, Albany, Ticonderoga, Niagara, Quebec, Vermont, the White Mountains, Portland, Boston, Connecticut, and intermediate points. He writes about people he met, particularly British minister George Hammond, Robert R. Livingston, and Philip Schuyler. He also discusses manufactures, slavery, the price of provisions, sawmills, schools, the waste of timber, taxes, land tenure and rental, wages, the wheat trade at Albany, wool, sheep, use of oxen, trees, plants, wildlife, treatment received at inns, the use of gypsum or plaster, complaints about the conduct of British officers and cruisers, crops, the curing of beef, etc. The report to the Board of Agriculture discusses such issues as the price of labor, irrigation, profitability of wheat crops, Buffalo clover, cost of land, clover seed as an export for refertilizing English soil, and American husbandry in general. The material is accompanied by a photocopy of Strickland's notes during his journey, kept in a printed format entitled Naturalist's Journal, and photographs of Boynton Hall, Strickland's home in Yorkshire.

20 v. (ca. 600 p. total, in 1 box)

New-York Historical Society

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