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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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plete.as the ^ I HE journey from the At--■- lantic to the Pacific is afitting introduction to the Yo-semite, which most nobly crownsthe grandest pleasure-tour withinthe limits of our country. Pal-ace, drawing-room, sleeping, andhotel cars, do not suggest, in titleat least, the weariness of travel;and the vast country traversedpresents so great a variety of in-terest that all sense of monotonyis banished, as, day after day andnight after night, the sleeplessengine rushes on, tireless. Two days and a half, flyingat railroad speed through fleetinglandscape, with now and then abusy town or great, roaring city—two nights of hurrying sleep,and the journey from the Atlan-tic to the Missouri River is com-The great plains of North America stretch away to the west, seemingly boundlessocean ; a wild spirit of freedom breathes in the very air that pipes and whistles Half-Dome, from the Merced K\\
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