The Tourist's Guide: Or Pencillings in England and on the Continent; With the Expenses, Conveyances, Distances, Sights, Hotels, Etc.; And Important Hints to the Tourist (Classic Reprint)

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Out of the very numerous number of American citizens who visit Europe, i feel assured there are at least one, if not two thirds who determine on leaving the United States without any settled place, without any fixed resolve as to their ulti mate place of destination, leaving to chance, when they ar rive, or to the advice of their friends, the choice of their future residence or movements. Now, it unfortunately hap pens that every. Person who has travelled, takes his own par ticular view, forms his own particular opinion of the gaiety, the dulness, the cheapness, or the extravagance of the diffe rent towns he visits; an inequality of fortune or of health often giving a bias, and colouring with gloom or brightness the different cities he may be questioned about.

To obviate in some measure these conflicting modes of oh taining correct information, this volume is undertaken; to point out the expenses to the economical traveller, the en riosi ties to be seen by the more inquisitive visiter, and to give a general view of the society and arrangements which may here be obtained by the more light-hearted voyager. Add to this, the best modes of travelling, and other subjects interest ing and instructive to the tourist, and the object of the pre sent work is given.

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