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Title: England, Picturesque and Descriptive
A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel

Author: Joel Cook

Release Date: August 24, 2009 [EBook #29787]

Language: English

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ALTON TOWERS.]

ENGLAND,

PICTURESQUE AND DESCRIPTIVE.

A

REMINISCENCE OF FOREIGN TRAVEL.

By JOEL COOK,

AUTHOR OF "A HOLIDAY TOUR IN EUROPE," "BRIEF SUMMER RAMBLES," ETC.

[Illustration: OLD MILL AT SELBORNE.]

WITH NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS.

PHILADELPHIA;

PORTER AND COATES.

Copyright
By PORTER & COATES,
1882.

PRESS OF HENRY B. ASHMEAD, PHILADA.

ELECTROTYPED BY WESTCOTT & THOMSON, PHILADA.

TO

JOHN WALTER, Esq.,

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR BERKSHIRE,

AND

PROPRIETOR OF THE LONDON TIMES,

WHO HAS DONE SO MUCH TO WELCOME AMERICANS

WITH TRUE ENGLISH HOSPITALITY,

AND TO

GIVE ENGLISHMEN A MORE ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE OF,

AND MORE INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH,

THE UNITED STATES,

This Work on England,

BY AN AMERICAN,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

INTRODUCTION.

No land possesses greater attractions for the American tourist than
England. It was the home of his forefathers; its history is to a great
extent the history of his own country; and he is bound to it by the
powerful ties of consanguinity, language, laws, and customs. When the
American treads the busy London streets, threads the intricacies of the
Liverpool docks and shipping, wanders along the green lanes of
Devonshire, climbs Alnwick's castellated walls, or floats upon the
placid bosom of the picturesque Wye, he seems almost as much at home as
in his native land. But, apart from these considerations of common
Anglo-Saxon paternity, no country in the world is more interesting to
the intelli