{A} There is no surer way of ascertaining the State from which an
American comes, than by his thinkings and guessings. The New-Englander
guesses, the Virginians and Pennsylvanians think, the Kentuckian
calculates, the man of Alabama reckons.
{B} The Mussel shoals are broad ridges of rocks, above Florence, which
spread out into the Tennessee.
{C} A corruption of Bourgogne, Burgundy wine.
{D} John Quincy Adams, then president of the United States.
{E} The Greeks, who at that time were struggling for their independence,
had received various succours from the United States. The Creeks are a
well-known tribe of Indians on the frontiers of Georgia.
{F} Turk's island is a small island from which the Western States, North
and South Carolina, Georgia, &c., get their salt.