" American Forest On Fire." Plate 24 From: Forty Etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828

Hall, Basil.

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[Edinburgh/London:]: [Cadell & Co.,Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys, & Graves,], [1829.]. "Basil Hall (31 December 1788 Ð 11 September 1844) was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. Basil Hall was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and in 1802 entered the navy, where he rose to the rank of post-captain in 1817, after seeing active service in several fields . By observing the ethnological as well as the physical peculiarities of the countries he visited, he collected the materials for a very large number of scientific papers . In 1816 he commanded the sloop " Lyra," which accompanied Lord Amherst's embassy to China; and he described his cruise in An Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-choo Island in the Japan Sea (London, 1818) . In 1820 he held a command on the Pacific coast of America, and in 1824 published two volumes of Extracts front a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico in the Years 1820Ð21Ð22 . Retiring on half-pay in 1824, Halt in 1825 married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Hunter, and in her company travelled (1827Ð1828) through the United States . In 1829 he published his Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828, which was assailed by the American press for its views of American society." [EB]