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Title: Young Americans Abroad
Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland,
Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland

Author: Various

Editor: J.O. Choules

Release Date: February 19, 2007 [EBook #20625]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: Cathedral Church of St. Gudule, Brussels]

YOUNG AMERICANS ABROAD;

OR,

VACATION IN EUROPE:

TRAVELS

IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, HOLLAND, BELGIUM, PRUSSIA
AND SWITZERLAND.

With Illustrations.

BOSTON:
GOULD AND LINCOLN,

89 WASHINGTON STREET.
1852.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

GOULD AND LINCOLN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY

TO

GEORGE SUMNER, ESQ.,

AS A

SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE

FOR HIS KIND ATTENTIONS IN PARIS,

AND IN

ADMIRATION OF TALENTS DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF

FREEDOM,

THESE LETTERS ARE RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATED,

BY HIS OBLIGED FRIENDS,

THE AUTHORS.

LIST

OF

ILLUSTRATIONS.

* * * * *

I. FRONTISPIECE--CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST.
GUDULE, BRUSSELS.

II. ICEBERGS SEEN FROM STEAMSHIP "ARCTIC,"
APRIL 6, 1851, 24

III. PORTRAIT OF THOMAS CHATTERTON, 56

IV. PORTRAIT OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, 61

V. PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, 88

VI. VIEW OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, LONDON, 148

VII. A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF DR. SAMUEL
JOHNSON, 150