A year's residence in the United States of America
Subtitle: treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of house-keeping and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and, of the institutions of the country, civil, political and religious. In three parts
By: by William Cobbett
Publisher: Printed for the author by Clayton and Kingsland
Published: 1818
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Subjects: Agriculture; Description and travel; Early works to 1800; Social life and customs
Notes: Author has numbered and indexed each paragraph of the entire work.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I.: Chap. I. A description of the face of the country ...; title: II. An account of the author's agricultural experiments in the cultivation of rutabaga,or Russia or Swedish, turnip which afford proof of what the climate and soil are.; title: Part II. Chap. III. Experiments as to cabbage.; title: IV. Earth- burning.; title: V. Transplanting Indian corn.; title: VI. Swedish turnips.; title: VII. Potatoes.; title: VIII. Cows, sheep, hogs, poultry.; title: IX. Prices of land, labour, food, raiment.; title: X. Expenses of house-keeping.; title: XI. Manners, customs, state andcharacter of people.; title: XII. Rural sports.; title: XIII. Paupers. XIV. Government, laws, and religion.