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America Revisited - From The Bay Of New York To The Gulf Of Mexico - Vol I
America Revisited From The Bay Of New York To The Gulf Of Mexico Vol I Author:George Augustus Sala AMERICA REVISITED FROM THE BAY OF NEW YORK TO THE GULF OF MEXICO, AND FROM LAKE MICHIGAN TO THE PACIFIC. BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, AUTHOR OF A JOURNEY DUE NORTH. ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY 400 ENGRAVINGS. TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. . PREFACE. KING CHARLES THE SECOND, urbane to the last, apologised to the courtiers who surrounded his death-bed for having b... more »een an unconscionably long time in dying and America Revisited needs, perhaps, to be made the subject of even more profuse apologies, owing to the apparently unconscion- able amount of time which has been consumed in bringing the work out. Its publication indeed, has been postponed in conse- quence of a variety of circumstances, with the enumeration of which it is not necessary to trouble the reader, beyond hinting that among the causes of its tardy solicitation of public favour has been my own absence from England on journalistic business during a considerable portion of the year 1881 first in Russia, whither I proceeded on the morrow of the assassination of the Tsar, Alexander II., and next in Italy, where I was fain to rest during many weeks towards the close of the year, slowly recovering from a severe illness by which I had been prostrated in Corsica. The delay, how- ever, has enabledmy publishers to bestow the most elaborate care on the illustrations of these two volumes, which, from the pictorial point of view, will, I hope, be found worthy of I 2« less