A journal of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England - and last, at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor Prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners / Written by himself.

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
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A journal of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England - and last, at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor Prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners / Written by himself. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : Printed by Rowe & Hooper, 1816.

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240 pages : folded engr. frontispiece ; (8vo)

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2nd ed. with considerable additions and improvements.

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"A novel founded on fact"--Allibone, Dict. of athors
Usually considered a work of fiction by Benjamin Waterhouse, but, according to H.R. Viets, edited by Waterhouse from a manuacript of Amos G. Babcock. cf. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, v. 12, July 1940, p. 605-622.

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