Title: Mirror for Americans; likeness of the eastern seaboard, 1810,
Authors: Brown, Ralph H. 1898-1948.; American Geographical Society of New York.
Publisher: American Geographical Society,
Year: 1943
Subjects: Atlantic States Description and travel.
Contents: Prologue. A gentleman of Philadelphia plans a concise account of the seaboard -- Ch. 1. Natural traits -- Ch. 2. A view of the population -- Ch. 3. Ways of travel -- Ch. 4. The principal occupations -- Ch. 5. The maritime interests. River and inshore fisheries -- The cod fisheries: tonnage and number of seamen -- Effects of the Revolution -- Shore and bank fisheries -- Isle of shoals as example of shore fisheries -- Description of banks -- History of banks fishery -- Present conduct of the fishery -- The "Lydia" of Marblehead as example -- Harbors of New England fleet: Gloucester, Marblehead, Newburyport -- Salt making on Cape Cod -- Whaling -- Jefferson on the History of the whale fisheries -- Tonnage engaged: New Bedford and Nantucket Pre-eminent -- Shift of whaling to the Tropical Pacific -- Voyage of Captain Worth in 1792 -- Products of whaling industry.