Early Western Travels, 1748-1846. Vol. 9, Flint's Letters from America, 1818-1820
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L1993.1.54I
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Early Western Travel, 1748-1846, Vol. 9 Flint's Letters from America, 1818-1820.
Containing Observations on the Climate and Agriculture of the Western States, the Manners of the People, the Prospects of Emigrants, by James Flint
James Flint came to America from Great Britain in the early 19th Century. He came to the United States to observe conditions and was particularly interested in the Middle West. After a brief sojourn in New York and Philadelphia where he made copious notes on the higher life in these two young cities. He followed the great Western thoroughfare across Pennsylvania, floated down the Ohio, traveled through Ohio and Kentucky and then spent several months at the falls of Ohio at Jeffersonville, Indiana. He writes about sanitation, the banking industry and contrasts life and conditions between the farmer and manufacturing in the United States with that of Great Britain. These letters were originally published in Edinburgh in 1822.
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Western States, Agriculture, Agricultural Tools, Emigrant Possibilities, Banking System, Manufacturing, Industry, Institutions, Immigration to America, New York, American Customs and Manners, Western Migration, Diary, Ohio River
