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Excerpt from The Romance of Yachting: Voyage the First
In England, with the Queen for patroness and exemplar, Yachting has come to be quite a systematic affair; and it is not unusual to find splendid and well-appointed English Yachts, some: times of several hundred tons in burthen, cruising in all the tern perate seas of Europe. These; are expensive appendages of' the wealthy. Those who can afford them, however, and have leisure for the enjoyment of travel by sea, possessa command over Sight seeing and rational indulgence which Is truly enviable. 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.
