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NORTH AMERICA
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
VOLUME I.
CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
* CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION
* CHAPTER II.
Newport--Rhode Island
* CHAPTER III.
Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
* CHAPTER IV.
Lower Canada
* CHAPTER V.
Upper Canada
* CHAPTER VI.
The Connection of the Canadas with Great Britain
* CHAPTER VII.
Niagara
* CHAPTER VIII.
North and West
* CHAPTER IX.
From Niagara to the Mississippi
* CHAPTER X.
The Upper Mississippi
* CHAPTER XI.
Ceres Americana
* CHAPTER XII.
Buffalo to New York
* CHAPTER XIII.
An Apology for the War
* CHAPTER XIV.
New York
* CHAPTER XV.
The Constitution of the State of New York
* CHAPTER XVI.
Boston
* CHAPTER XVII.
Cambridge and Lowell
* CHAPTER XVIII.
The Rights of Women
* CHAPTER XIX.
Education
* CHAPTER XX.
From Boston to Washington
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object before the intestine troubles of the United States government had commenced. I have not allowed the division among the States and the breaking out of civil war to interfere with my intention; but I should not purposely have chosen this period either for my book or for my visit. I say so much, in order that it may not be supposed that it is my spe