Excerpt from Running Sketches of Men and Places: In England, France, Germany, Belgium, and ScotlandIN putting out the following pages, it has been in part to satisfy the inquiries by my friends in this country, how I liked my tour through Europe, as well as to pre serve the pleasing incidents which were shown me, by the people wherever I sojourned.Without following the general course of travellers in encumbering their books in deep historical researches of the various countries they have visited, - I have merely put enough to interest the general reader, of the towns, and. Time-worn ruins which came under my personal observation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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