inhabitants of the western forests and doubtless correctly
attributed this sickly appearance to the effects of malaria and
miasma
Every traveler has remarked upon the yellow pallor of the first
inhabitants of the western forests and doubtless correctly
attributed this sickly appearance to the effects of malaria and
miasma. The psychic influences of the forest wilderness also
weighed heavily upon the spirits of the settlers, although, as
Baily notes, it was the newcomers who felt the depression to an
exaggerated degree. As he says: