1869 CHESTER'S TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES intheWestIndies, South America, Canada,and theUnitedStates TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES intheWestIndies,South America,Canada,andthe UnitedStates ApplewoodBooks Carlisle,Massachusetts Thank you for purchasing an Applewoo—d book. ApplewoodreprintsAmerica'slivelyclassics books from the past that are still of interest to modern readers. This facsimilewasprinted from digital files prepared by the Library ofCongress. Applewood's facsimile edition ofthis work may include library stamps,scribbles,andmarginnotesastheyexistinthe original book at the Library of Congress. These interestinghistoricalartifactscelebratetheplaceofthe book in the library's collection. In additiontothese artifacts, the work may have additional errors that wereeitherintheoriginal,inthescanspreparedbythe LibraryofCongress,orintroducedaswepreparedthe booksforprinting. Ifyoubelievetheworkhas such errors, please let us know by writing to us at the addressbelow. FirstEdition ISBN:1-4290-0417-7(Paperback) Forafreecopyofourcurrentprintcatalog,writeto: ApplewoodBooks POBox365 Bedford,MA01730 Formorecompletelistings, visitusonthewebat: awb.com TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES. Transatlantic Sketches IN THE WEST INDIES, SOUTH AMERICA, CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES. GREVILLE JOHN'CHESTER, B.A., .MEMBEROFTHEROYALARCHAEOLOGICALINSTITUTEOFGREATBRITAINANDIRELAND. f LONDON: SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE. 1869. \Allrightsreserved.] pnw TO MY OLDEST FRIEND, CHARLES PALMER, S. M.A., IN GRATEFULTOKENOF HISTRUE AND FORBEARING FRIENDSHIP FROM SCHOOL-DAYSTO THEPRESENTTIME, AREAFFECTIONATELYINSCRIRED. October,1869. s _ PREFACE. — + The writer has called this book "Transatlantic Sketches" to indicate his sense of the slightness of the work he has undertaken. ^ The moreonetravels the more does onebecome conscious of the incompleteness of the knowledge gainedinanything shortof long-continued residence in a country. The writer in his Sketclus has aimed at truth and accuracy; how far he has attained to these it is not for him to judge. For his account of Barbados alone he claims the merit of a photo- — graph aplain,true,uglylikenessofanuglysubject The extreme fewness of reliable books of travel in theWest Indies,and even in the greater part of — the United States a country full to overflowing of — interest and instruction will,it is hoped, excusethe appearanceofthisunpretendingvolume. Inspeaking of the United States and its-people, the writer has been compelled to use the incorrect