: The South-West by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham J H Joseph Holt - New Orleans (La.) Description and travel; Southwest Old Social life and customs; Southwest Old Description and travel; Mississippi Description and travel; Natchez (Miss.) De

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Characteristic scenery of the Mississippi--Card playing--Sabbath on board a steamboat--An old sinner--A fair Virginian--Inquisitiveness of Yankee ladies--Southern ladies--A general--Ellis's cliffs--Mines--Atala --Natchez in the distance--Duelling ground--Fort Rosalie--Forests--A traveller's remark. Page 9

Land at the Lev?e--African porters--First impression of passing travellers--"Natchez under the Hill"--A dizzy road--A rapid descent --View from the summit--Fine scenery in the vicinity--Reservoir--A tawny Silenus--A young Apollo--Warriors "hors du combat"--Indian females--Mississippian backwoodsman--Mansion House. 17

A northerner's idea of the south-west--Natchez and health--"Broadway" of Natchez--Street scenes--Private carriages--Auction store--Sale of a slave--Manner in which slaves view slavery--Shopping--Fashion-- Southern gentlemen--Merchants--Planters--Whip bearers--Planters' families. 27

First impressions--American want of taste in public buildings-- Agricultural bank--Masonic hall--Natchez academy--Education of Mississippians--Cemetery--Theatre--Presbyterian church--Court-house --Episcopal church--Light-house--Hotels--Planters, Houses and galleries--Jefferson hotel--Cotton square. 36

Society of Natchez--New-England adventurers--Their prospects--The Yankee sisterhood--Southern bachelors--Southern society--Woman--Her past and present condition--Single combats--Fireside pleasures unknown--A change--Town and country--Characteristic discrepancies. 45

A Sabbath morning in Natchez--A ramble to the bluff--Louisiana forests--Natchez under the Hill--Slaves--Holidays--Negroes going to church--Negro street coteries--Market day--City hotel--Description of the landing--Rail-way--A rendezvous--Neglected Sabbath-bell. 52

Reminiscences--An aged pastor--Streets of Natchez on the Sabbath-- Interior of a church--Church music--Pulpit oratory--A New England scene--Peculiar state of society--Wealthy ministers--Clerical planters--Health of Mississippi--Episcopalian church--Catholics-- The French language--Catholic education--Methodists--An alarm bell and slaves. 62

Catholic burying-ground--Evening in a grave yard--Sounds of a busy city--Night--Disturbers of the dead--Dishumation of human remains --Mourning cards--A funeral--Various modes of riding--Yankee horsemanship--Mississippian horsemen--Pacers--A plantation road --Residence--The grave--Slaves weeping for their master!--New cemetery. 73

National diversities of character--Diversities of language-- Provincialisms--A plantation and negroes--Natchez bar--A youthful judge--Physicians--Clergymen--Merchants, &c. &c.--A southern mania--"Washing"--Tobacco--Value of cotton planting and statistics --An easy "way to wealth." 84

An excursion--A planter's gallery--Neglect of grounds--Taste and economy--Mississippi forests--The St. Catharine--Cotton fields--Worm fences--Hedges--The pride of China--The magnolia tree and flower-- Plantation roads--White cliffs--General view of a plantation. 96

Horticulture--Chateaubriand--A Mississippi garden and plants--A novel scene--Sick slaves--Care of masters for their sick--Shamming --Inertness of negroes--Burial of slaves--Negro mothers--A nursery --Negro village on the Sabbath--Religious privileges of slaves-- Marriages--Negro "passes"--The advantages of this regulation-- Anecdote of a runaway. 113

Preparations for a deer hunt--A sailor, a planter, and an author--A deer driver--"Stands" for deer--The hunting ground--The hunt-- Ellis's cliff--Silver mine--An hypothesis--Alluvial formation of the lower valley of the Mississippi--Geological descriptions of the south-west. 132

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