Two Years In Three Continents Experiences Impressions And Observations Of Two Americans Abroad 1904

Author : Edgar Mantelbert Condit
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282411145
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Two Years in Three Continents written by Edgar Mantelbert Condit and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two Years in Three Continents: Experiences, Impressions and Observations of Two Americans Abroad And so they had it all day long. If he had been a truly born American, I should have been quite ashamed of his bombastic eulogies of our great resources, industrial enter prises, wealth and power. I know not what may be true of Ireland the other eleven months of the year, but in May it was the most beautiful spot I ever visited. The almost daily tears of the ocean keep all vegetation rank and so vividly green that no one can help exclaim There's nothing like this in all America. I confess I had to greatly revise my previous impression of that country. There's very little plain; rolling to mountainous country prevails. By far the greater part of Ireland is very productive, and to look at from the top of a stage coach is more beautiful than the better parts of Iowa and Illinois. God never spread out for the eye of man a more lovely panorama of landscape, or environed him for his home with such exquisite Splashes of nature. From some height your eye reaches at once 'miles of Sloping hillsides, distant valleys, far off mountains and hiding glens, a peaceful lake with wooded shores and some times a splashing, rapid little river made up of a hundred Spring brooks that go laughing along by every roadside; and what greatly adds to the picture, all the available country lies in one great checkerboard as distinctly as a painting on the wall. The fields range in Size from one to four or five acres, either enclosed by stone wall entirely hidden by ivy or on top of which grows the furze with a brilliant yellow flower; or sometimes the fence is a haw thorne hedge, and that in the latter part of May is covered with white bloom. 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.