New travels in the United States of America: performed in MDCCLXXXVIII : containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius and present state of the people and government of that country, their agriculture, commerce, manufactures and finances, quality and price of lands and progress of the settlements on the Ohio and the Mississippi, political and moral character of the Quakers and a vindication of that excellent sect from the misrepresentations of other travellers, state of the blacks, progress of the laws for their emancipation, and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent, accurate accounts of the climate, longevity, comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c., &c