Abstract
T HE COMMENTS of British travelers in America, both in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, are almost monotonously unanimous in denying the existence of dialects in the United States. In his article on 'British Recognition of American Speech in the Eighteenth Century'1 A. W. Read cites many interesting comments which reflect the Englishman's astonishment at the absence in America of dialects comparable to the country dialects of England, and his admiration of the uniformity of the language and its general purity. The statement of William Eddis (June 8, 1770) is fairly typical: 'The language of the immediate descendants of such a promiscuous ancestry is perfectly uniform, and unadulterated.'2
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