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Hall, Basil
Hall, Basil( 1788–1844),British naval officer and traveler, whose three-volume Travels in North America (1829) aroused much protest in the U.S. because of its Tory view of the crude democratic society. The Aristocratic Journey (1931) is a collection of the letters which his wife, Margaret H. Hall, wrote during this trip.
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