HUGHES FRAZER HALLE.
Chudleigh, March 24. 1851.
_Slums_ (Vol. iii., p. 224.).--This word is, I take it, an Americanism,
being an abbreviation of _settlements_.
The _back settlements_ and _back slums_ are used synonymously.
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