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Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ly look into thehabits of these strange victims of circum-stances. Examine page 214, if you please.In No. 1 we see a stony-hearted savagetaking a very mean advantage of a whitecaptive, and torturing him to death in themost horrible and deliberate manner. No.2, an early settler pursued by a native.No. 3, Indian barber. And lastly, in No.4, we have an Indian gentleman journeyingtowards the setting sun on dead-head prin-ciples. * His faithf al dog shall bear him company.—Campbell. CHAPTER XXVIIL AMERICAN SCENERY. Few countries can boast such a varietyof natural features as our own America. To the intelligent toui^ist of unlimitedbank account this country affords abun-dant material for the study of nature withall the modern improvements, includinggas, hot and cold water, and an elevatorrunning every five minutes up to the fif-teenth floor. Terms invariably in advance. Our illustration on the opposite pageconveys but a feeble idea of the magnitudeof some of the wonderful freaks of nature
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218 NATURES DOINGS. which the tourist doing American isliable at any moment to stumble upon. In No. 1 we have the Mammoth Cave.It takes its name from the gentlemanupon whose property it is located, andwho uses it as a sub-cellar in Winter,and locks himself up in it during thetax-gathering season. Our illustrationtreats of the latter period. The NaturalBridge (No. 2) is a marvel of architecture,and is lavishly decorated with appropriateinscriptions. No. 3 hardly comes underthe head of Natural Scenery., and wouldappear to be rather a sudden change fromthe sweet realms of nature to the busyhaunts of men; but contrast is everything,and we turn from this turbulent scene toone of delicious repose. No. 4, a Westernprairie. Here the eye wanders off over a //////////// 219 rich and varied landscape of level country,till finalljT- in the distance it encounterswhat ? a vast spider ? No. That is onlythe setting sun, as v^e ascertained in a privateconversation with the artist. No. 5. Wehardly know

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