A Scamper Through America: Or, Fifteen Thousand Miles of Ocean and Continent in Sixty Days |
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... Hotel -Magnificence and Filth - Manners and Customs- Aurora Borealis ... ... ... 24 27 29 ... DAY ELEVEN - Central Park - Broadway - Display of Bunting - Delmonico's - Hotel Charges - Boot Clean- ing - No Bills - Hack Fares - Baggage ...
... Hotel -Magnificence and Filth - Manners and Customs- Aurora Borealis ... ... ... 24 27 29 ... DAY ELEVEN - Central Park - Broadway - Display of Bunting - Delmonico's - Hotel Charges - Boot Clean- ing - No Bills - Hack Fares - Baggage ...
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... Hotel at Albany - A Fire - escape - The New Capitol -The Cathedral- " Dim Religious Light " .. ... DAY FOURTEEN - The Hudson River - Comparison with the Rhine and the Danube - A New York Billiard Hall - The Cannon Game - Pyramids Novel ...
... Hotel at Albany - A Fire - escape - The New Capitol -The Cathedral- " Dim Religious Light " .. ... DAY FOURTEEN - The Hudson River - Comparison with the Rhine and the Danube - A New York Billiard Hall - The Cannon Game - Pyramids Novel ...
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... Hotel ... ... ... DAY TWENTY - FOUR - The Wheat Fields of Missouri- Prospects of Harvest - Farmsteads and Prosperous Towns - English ideas of going from Home for a Change - A Big Figure 8 - Council Bluffs - Bridge 82 86 over the ...
... Hotel ... ... ... DAY TWENTY - FOUR - The Wheat Fields of Missouri- Prospects of Harvest - Farmsteads and Prosperous Towns - English ideas of going from Home for a Change - A Big Figure 8 - Council Bluffs - Bridge 82 86 over the ...
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... Hotel - Plan of the City— Encompassing Mountains - Mormonism the Enemy of Progress - Polygamy Discredited - The Electric Light and Telephone - The Tabernacle - Marvellous Acous- tic Properties - Conversation with Aged Mormon ...
... Hotel - Plan of the City— Encompassing Mountains - Mormonism the Enemy of Progress - Polygamy Discredited - The Electric Light and Telephone - The Tabernacle - Marvellous Acous- tic Properties - Conversation with Aged Mormon ...
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... Hotel - The Ceylon - The Bay and Harbour - Fine Sailing Ships - Graving Dock cut out of Solid Rock - Chinatown - Act of Congress prohibiting Chinese Immigration - Enter- prising Newsagent ... ... ... ... DAY THIRTY - Daily Ocean Breeze ...
... Hotel - The Ceylon - The Bay and Harbour - Fine Sailing Ships - Graving Dock cut out of Solid Rock - Chinatown - Act of Congress prohibiting Chinese Immigration - Enter- prising Newsagent ... ... ... ... DAY THIRTY - Daily Ocean Breeze ...
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