Composed of twelve essays, the tenth details a story of a pair of boots with a pair of snake fangs caught in them and is titled "Of Snakes; and on the Humming-Bird."  
Composed of twelve essays, the tenth details a story of a pair of boots with a pair of snake fangs caught in them and is titled "Of Snakes; and on the Humming-Bird."  The ninth one attacks the institution of slavery and is entitled "Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene."  Dedicated to Abbe Reynal, it begins "Behold, Sir, an humble American Planter, a simple cultivator of the earth, addressing you from the farther side of the Atlantic."  Written in 1782, FTP, identify this collection of letters by Hector St. John De Crevecoeur.
Composed of twelve essays, the tenth details a story of a pair of boots with a pair of snake fangs caught in them and is titled "Of Snakes; and on the Humming-Bird."  
Letters From an American Farmer