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Ethel Gwendoline Vincent. Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water
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PREFACE
FORTY THOUSAND MILES OVER. LAND AND WATER
CHAPTER I. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
CHAPTER II. NEW YORK, HUDSON RIVER, AND NIAGARA FALLS
CHAPTER III. THE DOMINION OF CANADA
CHAPTER IV. THE AMERICAN LAKES, AND THE CENTRES OF LEARNING, FASHION, AND GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER V. TO THE FAR WEST
CHAPTER VI. SAN FRANCISCO AND THE YOSEMITE VALLEY
CHAPTER VII. ACROSS THE PACIFIC
CHAPTER VIII. COACHING THROUGH THE NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND; ITS HOT LAKES AND GEYSERS
CHAPTER IX. THE SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND: ITS ALPS AND MOUNTAIN LAKES
CHAPTER X. TASMANIA AND VICTORIA
CHAPTER XI. NEW SOUTH WALES AND QUEENSLAND
CHAPTER XII. WITHIN THE BARRIER REEF, THROUGH TORRES' STRAITS TO BATAVIA
CHAPTER XIII. NETHERLANDS INDIA
CHAPTER XIV. THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
CHAPTER XV. THE METROPOLIS OF INDIA AND ITS HIMALAYAN SANATORIUM
CHAPTER XVI. THE SHRINES OF THE HINDU FAITH
CHAPTER XVII. THE SCENES OF THE INDIAN MUTINY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CITIES OF THE GREAT MOGUL
CHAPTER XIX. GWALIOR AND RAJPUTANA
CHAPTER XX. THE HOME OF THE PARSEES
CHAPTER XXI. THROUGH EGYPT—HOMEWARDS
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Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America
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A fresh wind dappled the blue sky, and raised the muddy waters of the grand old Hudson. Across from New Jersey and Hoboken, those thriving suburbs of New York, came the busy hum of life. The well-wooded hills were clothed with villas, whose domes or towers peep out from amongst the dense foliage. Here and there, standing in a little park, were châlets, or a cottage with gilt minarets, or, even in still more incongruous taste, a Chinese pagoda. It is here the merchants from the great city take their rest and pleasure, within ear-shot and easy reach of their familiar haunts around Wall Street. On the opposite shore the great wall of basaltic trap-rock, known to the early settlers by the name of the "Great Chip Rock," but to their more practical successors as the "Palisades," forms an impenetrable wall, rising in a sheer precipice from the river, a height of from 300 to 600 feet.
Meandering along by its mighty brother, unseen on the other side, there is another river, running at a lower level.
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