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The Art of Travel -
Francis Galton
Learning to Swim.—A good way of teaching a person to swim, is a modification of
that adopted at Eton. The teacher may sit in a punt or on a rock, with a stout
stick of 6 or 10 feet in length, at the end of which is a cord of 4 feet or so,
with loops. The learner puts himself into the loops; and the teacher plays him,
as a fisherman would play a fish, in water that is well out of his depth: he
gives him just enough support to keep him from drowning. After six or a dozen
lessons, many boys require no support at all, but swim about with the rope
dangling slack about them. When a boy does this, he can be left to shift for
himself.
Letters of a Traveller
- William Cullen Bryant
If you would see a city wholly
Flemish in its character, you should visit Antwerp, to which the railway takes
you in an hour and a half. The population here is almost without Walloon
intermixture, and there is little to remind you of what you have seen in France,
except the French books in the booksellers' windows. The arts themselves have a
character of their own which never came across the Alps. The churches, the
interior of which is always carefully kept fresh with paint and gilding, are
crowded with statues in wood, carved with wonderful skill and spirit by Flemish
artists, in centuries gone by...
Tales of a Traveller
My friend, the nervous gentleman,
also, who is a man of very shy, Retired habits, complains that he has been
excessively annoyed in consequence of its getting about in his neighborhood that
he is the fortunate personage. Insomuch, that he has become a character of
considerable notoriety in two or three country towns; and has been repeatedly
teased to exhibit himself at blue-stocking parties, for no other reason than
that of being “the gentleman who has had a glimpse of the author of Waverley.”
Vignettes Of San Francisco -
Almira Bailey
Sunday morning, blessed play time, there is a fellow in a green canoe, and the
muscles of his body play into the movement of the waves until he and his green
canoe and the white capped waves are all one motif of the whole symphony. Men
play around the yacht club like a lot of school boys, and now—"Shoot," they push
a long slim racer into the water. Dainty white yachts go dipping to the waves
and seem like lovely young girls in among the sturdier boats.
Beautiful Europe - Belgium - Joseph E. Morris
Wander where you will in the ancient streets of Bruges, and you will not fail to
discover everywhere some delightful relic of antiquity, or to stumble at every
street corner on some new and charming combination of old houses, with their
characteristic crow-stepped, or corbie, gables.
Edingburgh Picturesque Notes - Robert Louis
Stevenson
Greyfriars is continually overrun by cats. I have seen one afternoon, as many as
thirteen of them seated on the grass beside old Milne, the Master Builder, all
sleek and fat, and complacently blinking, as if they had fed upon strange meats.
Old Milne was chaunting with the saints, as we may hope, and cared little for
the company about his grave; but I confess the spectacle had an ugly side for
me; and I was glad to step forward and raise my eyes to where the Castle and the
roofs of the Old Town
See America First
If you are approaching Gettysburg for the first time you cannot help but admire
those even swells that stretch away from South Mountain like an emerald sea. No
doubt you will begin to wonder where the town is situated as you advance.
Numerous low ridges are crossed and at last the famous town lies before you.
--by Orville O. Hiestand
Explorations in Australia
- John McDouall Stuart
At fourteen miles we struck the
other branch, where it joined, with splendid reaches of water, to the main one,
which now came from the west of north, and continued to where our line cut the
east branch. This seems to be the place where it takes its rise. Camped for the
night. The whole of the country that we have travelled through to-day is the
best for grass that I have ever gone through. I have nowhere seen its equal.
From the number of natives, from there being winter and summer habitations, and
from the native grave, I am led to conclude the water there is permanent. The
gum-trees are large. I saw kangaroo-tracks.
The Art of Living in Australia - Philip E. Muskett
It is somewhat curious that, among the many questions which pertain to the
national life of Australia, little, if any, attention has been directed to the
influences which the daily food and habitual dietary exercise upon the present,
and in what way they will affect the future population. And yet it must be
apparent that the life of a nation is moulded in no small degree by its daily
fare, by its general food habits, and still more by the fact of its living in
conformity with, or in direct opposition to, its climatic requirements.
Pictures From Italy
I am no more bound to explain why the English family traveling by this
carriage, inside and out, should be starting for Italy on a Sunday morning, of
all good days in the week, than I am to assign a reason for all the little men
in France being soldiers, and all the big men postilions; which is the
invariable rule. But, they had some sort of reason for what they did, I have no
doubt...
The
Uncommercial Traveller
No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter
worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of beef or tongue or ham
is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no
hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel room tapestried with
great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public
entertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy
or sherry.
Travels through France and Italy -
Tobias Smollett
The burghers here, as in other places, consist of merchants, shop-keepers, and
artisans. Some of the merchants have got fortunes, by fitting out privateers
during the war. A great many single ships were taken from the English,
notwithstanding the good look-out of our cruisers, who were so alert, that the
privateers from this coast were often taken in four hours after they sailed from
the French harbour; and there is hardly a captain of an armateur in Boulogne,
who has not been prisoner in England five or six times in the course of the war.
They were fitted out at a very small expense, and used to run over in the night
to the coast of England, where they hovered as English fishing smacks, until
they kidnapped some coaster, with which they made the best of their way across
the Channel.
Travels in England -
Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton
The famous river Thames owes part of its stream, as well as its appellation, to
the Isis; rising a little above Winchelcomb, and being increased with several
rivulets, unites both its waters and its name to the Thame, on the other side of
Oxford; thence, after passing by London, and being of the utmost utility, from
its greatness and navigation, it opens into a vast arm of the sea, from whence
the tide, according to Gemma Frisius, flows and ebbs to the distance of eighty
miles, twice in twenty-five hours, and, according to Polydore Vergil, above
sixty miles twice in twenty-four hours.
The Californiacs
The Californiac is unable to talk about anything
but California, except when he interrupts himself to knock every other place on
the face of the earth. He looks with pity on anybody born outside of California
and he believes that no one who has ever seen California willingly lives
elsewhere. He himself often lives elsewhere, but he never admits that it is from
choice.
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