The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-01

have travelled apparently for the purpoie of acquiring
Information. AT the INTAKES ard INTERPRETATIONS
oil the former, mutt not be greatly furprized, ror
ought we perhapsn charity 20 be greatly offended.
"A want of bread has probably forced them to write,
and want Of Knowledge has obliged them to write
inaccurately But the INTERPRETATIONS of thoie
writers who have croded the Atlantic and reided for
years IL the United States as they cannot have pro-
ceeded from the fame fource, entitled to the
fame indulgence.
Among the European writers who have reided for
time in the mdtt of US, for whole accommodation
the poteaels and hciptaity OF country have been
eShaued, and whole ungrateful pens have afterwards
rewarded us with the mon unfounded larder and a.
buie, Mr.. Volney hands pre-eminert That travel
Ter received, during his Ray in the United States, very
pointed and attering attention from many of mott
enlightened and diltinguiihed characters. But in
what manner has the migrate repaid our civlties BY
iudieny disappearing without taking leave, as If he
had fled from offended Juice by afterwards uttering
againh TIE mol foul and unheard Of ai.rtons, and
endsavourirg 20 fink us in The eyes Of Europe the
iowelt pitch of national degradation. In late worl,
entitled A decripton of the foil and climate Of the
United Safes, this author has given vent his falfe-
hood and peen i'll the following unmerited paquinade
Oh the phyGcal fate OF our country.
From the fuTnmer folftce, he iays, and even go
days before, Philadelphia experiences heats 70 burning
hot that the ftreets deerted from o'clock till
brG'
Our European drizzly rains, continues he, are 70
rare, IN that climate, that they are called Engliih
rains (untempo angais and when they happen, which
is ihortly after the Equinox it the fahion to 90 a.
broad without umbrellas and get as wet as water
fowls"
The following, fays this Traveller, is Sketch
o the general face of the territory, &c. of the Unit
ed States. A Continental foreit anioft unverial--
i've great lakes to thenorth-to the wet va Pyaries
IN the centre chain of mountains the ridges of which
run in parallel line with the Tea coat, at difance
OF 20 to so leagues upon fea board of nine hun
dred miles fcattered fome 10 or l2 towns built of
BRICK and painted wood, containing from 10 90 600
ionls. Around ,heie log houles with few fields
OF wheat, tobacco and indian attached to them,
It'll covered with ffumps half burn, barked thef
fields divided by branches Of trees inead of hedges
and they, well the houle walled in as it were by
the wood work of the soret, which huts them COM
Petey up (englober) add all thcfc, capricious and
gloomy Ky (ciel bourru y air alternately humid
and dry toggy or clear, cold hot 70 variable, that
one day gives the chills of Norway, the fun of Africa
the four iealons of the year, and you will have, in
few words the Phyfical fate of United America"
In giving an account of our cookery and diet MIR.
Voiney manfefts equal degree of illberality and
faiehood ute the term fafehood (however uncourt-
y Its found may be) becaufe iure the milrepre-
ientation is wiful. No who has reided 10 long
as MIR. Volney did, could be 70 grofsly ignorant of
matters which mutt have daily fallen under his notice
For notwithstanding the airy qualities and eadcses
f'al elevation, of gnius exhibited by him in that viion-
airy and lmpous nothing The Ruins OF PALMI-
RA, the neceility of taking food and drink reduced
nun at it IN one rcpect to the level Of hui
mauity.
will untersaIe TO afIert favs this writer" thar
II a premium offered for . fem of regimen the
belt calculated to ruin the health the omach and the
teeth, none could be found anfwer thofe purpoes
better than that of the apglo-Amercans.
In the morning ut breakfait they pour into their
tomaohs pint of warm water, 20 lightly mpregnated
with tea or coffee that is nothing more than brown
llh Hop; with this they iwallow, unchewed pieces
OF hot doughty bread, toait fwimming in butter fat
cheeie, fces of beef and falt, and noaked ham, &c.
every one Of which are difficult to tiiiove
Az dinner boiled pate is ferved up this they call
pudding, the grealisr the better All their gravies
even that for roaf Beef nothing more than melt
ed butter IurniPs and potatoes drowned in hogs
tat, butter and greae their paltry called pumpkin pye
Is nothing but half baked greatly dough-To wafh
down this Amy fluff, Tea is brought in, almot inme
dately after dinner but this time is 70 irong that
us bitter tate the throat and attacks the nerve
10 violently that 1t prevents the Engliih from
ileeping, more than the ftrongeh Coffee
Supper is made up of ialt meats and oyfers, and
CbafnN remarks, the wholeday sfpent in heaping one
iuuiSsltlDe thng upon another.-Io give tone to
the itoach, atigued and relaxed they drink MADEIRA
wne' rum, brandy, gin, and whifky, all which COM
Pletes the attack upon the nervous fyitem"
Such grois iaehoods uttered with fuch unparallel
ed effronery, and under circumstances which had the
facts even been true, ought have greatly foened
me writer's expeditions, unworthy of refutation
Simply to relate them is fucient for the purpoes of
general adherence. Every American InuA view
them with deteitation aud every liberal and well in
formed European mutt buh for the depravity of the
migrate who fabricated them We do not mean TO de-
end the diet and general regimen adopted by the inha
btants OF the u. particularly in the fun,iner & au
tumna ieaons They are certainly very i'll uited to the
genius and character of our climate But this unfta-
bencis aries from fources different from thofe men,
toned or rather fabricated by the windy Phofopher
OF Paris That diet and drinks are too ffimuIa
ting and inismmatory for climate cannot be
denied This Circumstance refults from our irnpro-
per attachment to the generous living of our Britih
anceltry. But as to cookery, youtJfnI and IN
exferieaei author repreents u.s. it is no res
pect inferior to that OF the oldet European countries
1t ilneeresy hoped that this icandaous publication
OF Mr. Volney will prove one important leiion to the
inhabitants of the United States. That it will teach
them duly to reipea themleves, to regard in its pr,
feF isi,t the extreme jeaouiy with which they are
viewed by transatlantic nations and to check and re-
pc! the vanity and arrogance ofleoaeetcf foreigners
by whom they may be vifted. The befl mode of
drawing truth from luch empty itinerants on their
return 20 their native country u.s. to teach them the
arts Of humility i'll our own.
A TRUE AMERICAN.