Table of Contents:
  • Part one: The royal river. Touching, from afar, the Welaka
  • Combines instruction with brevity
  • The river of May
  • The river of blood
  • Afternoon of an artist
  • Not peace but a sword
  • Concerning patriotism and piety
  • Friends in need
  • The odious stranger
  • What Mr. Castell caused
  • A Scot intervenes
  • The trouble about altruism
  • Introducing the romantic
  • The almost lost colony
  • Some who sinned variously
  • How the river got a comander
  • Designed by Thomas Jefferson
  • Part two: The republican river. Of fitness and discretion
  • The melting pot simmers
  • A river rediscovered
  • Birds of all feathers
  • Alarums and excursions
  • The smallest tadpole
  • The river at war
  • As to Frederick in Patmos
  • The steambot era
  • To amuse and instruct
  • About the advance of Napoleon
  • The upper St. Johns
  • Cora comes back.