Robert A. Selig,in The William and Mary Quarterly (July1993),Box 8781, Williamsburg,Va. 23187-8781.
Many visiting foreigners recorded their impres- sions of 18th-century America, but few, if any, had quite die qualifications of Georg Daniel Flolv. "Relatively unburdened book learning or pre- conceived ideas, he had fewer prejudices" than many well-born observers of American life, writes Selig, a visiting professor at Hope College, in Hol- land, Michigan.
Born in 1756in southwestern Germany,...