Introduction : Authoring the Erie -- [Selections from] -- "The Great Western canal" / Philip Freneau -- "Celebration of the grand canal" / Rev. Charles Giles -- Travels in North America / Basil Hall -- Men and manners in America / Thomas Hamilton -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Retrospect of Western travel / Harriet Martineau -- "The Canal boat" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The poetry of travelling in the United States / Caroline Gilman -- "The canal boat" / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- "The aged pilot man" / Samuel L. Clemens -- "The raging canal" ; popular song -- Their wedding journey / W.D. Howells -- David Harum / Edward Noyes Wescott -- Erie water / Walter D. Edmonds -- "Canal bride"/ Samuel Hopkins Adams
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