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Title: Around the world in eighty days
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston : J. R. Osgood & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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six oclock p.m.; he had, therefore, anentire day to spend in the Californian capital. Taking acarriage at a charge of three dollars, he and Aouda enteredit, while Passepartout mounted the box beside the driver,and they set out for the International Hotel. From his exalted position Passepartout observed withmuch curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly rangedhouses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks,the palatial wooden and brick warehouses, the numerousconveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chineseand Indians. Passepartout was surprised at all he saw.San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849,—a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who hadflocked hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder; a paradiseof outlaws, where they gambled with gold-dust, a revolverin one hand and a bowie-knife in the other: it was now agreat commercial emporium. The lofty tower of its City Hall overlooked the whole
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THE PLANES WEEE EOTTEN. (Page 203. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. 205 panorama of the streets and avenues, which cut each otherat right angles, and in the midst of which appearedpleasant, verdant squares, while beyond appeared theChinese quarter, seemingly imported from the CelestialEmpire in a toy-box. Sombreros and red shirts andplumed Indians were rarely to be seen ; but there weresilk hats and black coats everywhere worn by a multitudeof nervously active, gentlemanly-looking men. Some ofthe streets—especially Montgomery Street, which is toSan Francisco what Regent Street is to London, theBoulevard des Italiens to Paris, and Broadway to NewYork—were lined with splendid and spacious stores, whichexposed in their windows the products of the entire world.When Passepartout reached the International Hotel, itdid not seem to him as if he had left England at all. The ground floor of the hotel was occupied by a largebar, a sort of restaurant freely open to all passers-by, whomight pa

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