Reise-Skizzen in Poesie und Prosa . Gesammelt auf einer siebenmonatlichen Tour durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika. Von Peter August Moelling aus Neustadt a. W. Rheinpfalz, Bayern. Illustrirte Ausgabe. Galveston, Texas. Gedruckt in der Office des “Apologeten” und daselbst zu haben beim Verfasser.

This day, May 5th, I have found amongst a lot of old German religious books Sketches of Travels (Reise-Skizzen) by R. A. Moelling, published at Galveston, octavo, pp. 384. There is no indication of the year when this book was published; it evidently was not copyrighted.

From pages 1-16 are chapters relating to a trip from Galveston to New Orleans with a description of the latter.

The author occupied several pulpits while in the city. He went north as far as Minnesota, preaching as he went. There are many excellent portraits of ministers of his sect and a view of the Falls of Minnehaha. He traveled all over the Eastern States, then went to Indiana and Ohio, at which time he writes a poem on the Mason and Dixon line; he then returns to New Orleans by way of the river, and gives an account of the Lutheran ministers at that time preaching in the city.

Pages 328-343 are descriptive of this second visit; in the pages from 350-384 he describes a tour to Texas. The book is extremely interesting.

William Beer .

How to cite:
Beer, William, "Reise-Skizzen in Poesie und Prosa", Volume 019, Number 1, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 107 - 108. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v019/n1/review_29.html
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