Identifier: strangerinameric00jans (find matches)
Title: The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States ; with biographical particulars of public characters ; hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade
Year: 1807 (1800s)
Authors: Janson, Charles William
Subjects: Slaves -- United States Social conditions United States -- Description and travel United States -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Printed for J. Cundee
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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myselfto them, I should soon have been stripped of all my travelling cash. On my last visit to the navy yard, I found six frigates, dismantled andlaid up in ordinary, and one nearly equipped for sea, for the purpose ofcarrying back the Tunisian embassy to Barbary. A small vessel of war,pierced for iO guns, had just been launched. Mr. Jefferson, two yearsago, adopted an idea of liis own, in order to raise the credit of the Ame-rican navy, and for the destruction of the powers of Barbary. This is7to build a number of small vessels of about 100 tons burden, to becalled gun-boats, each of which is provided with too heavy pieces ofordnance—one at the stem, and the other at the stern. Though the in-utility of these mockeries of men of war has been manifested on many oc-casions, yet the president persists in riding his naval hobby-horse, even inKentucky; where several gun-boats are building on the river Ohio. One ofthem was nearly lost on a voyage to the Mediterranean—being, the whole x
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\ (^ .^ Si ^ ^%m% MOUNT VERXON. 211 whole voyage, to use a sea phrase, wet and under water. Another,gun boat. No. 1. (thus they are named, to No. 8,) in a hurricane inSouth Carohna, was driven nearly a mile into the woods. These ves-sels must be very unmanageable in action. It would not be amiss if theprojector could invent a piece of mechanism which would quickly turnthem round; for, in this case, the) might as we turn a wheel, first pre-sent the head gun, and then, while it was loading, by a magic touch,in a second give a stern shot! Thus, these nimble and redoubted gun-boats might chance to beat off an Algerine, or Tripoline rover. Added to these, the Americans have a frigate and two or three smallvessels of war in the Mediterranean; and which constitute their nav5\One of their fmest frigates, in attempting to bombard Tripoli, grounded,and every exertion of the crew to get her off, proved ineffectual. SheAvas taken possession of by the armed boats of the Barbarians, and theAvhole c

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