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Fordham was an especially well-qualified observer of the Middle West because of the nu trips for new erants, in the service of Mr Birkbeck These journeys led him into Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky; and he never omits the opportunity to make frank and pointed comment on society, manners, and morals, as well as careful observations of the face of the country and of industrial conditions The style is quite unaffected and has htliness; and the fact that he wrote anonymously made him much more free in his comments on contemporary society than would otherwise have been possible

=LOCAL AND PIONEER HISTORY=

These journeys also gave him unexampled opportunities for contact with the pioneers of Middle West, and his journal is consequently rich in _personalia_ of early settlers, rericulture, prices, and information on local history not obtainable elsewhere He also visited the larger cities and gives very interesting accounts of Pittsburg and Cincinnati, accoinal sketches and plans In Kentucky he had the opportunity to study slavery; and although at first prejudiced against this institution he finally reached the conclusion that the slave states offered better chances of successful settlement than the free states

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