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Excerpt from A Book About Travelling: Past and Present
Treat comprehensively his varied and interesting subject. To the several editors and publishers who permitted extracts to be made from newspapers or books, to some old friends from whom a few unpublished facts and reminiscences have been derived, and to two young friends who aided him in culling information from books, old and new, the thanks of the writer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
