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Identifier: tarryathometrav00hale (find matches)
Title: Tarry at home travels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New York (State) -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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heyare exquisitely insular. A post-captain or anadmiral may be alluded to because Britanniarules the waves. But the continent of Europeor the double continent of America is referredto no more than the Planet Neptune, of whichshe had never heard. This unknown Englishdoctor sent his English carriage across to Calais,made up a party of four, took his life in his hands,and rode to Italy and back again, and told fromday to day just what he had seen. It is grace-less of me to forget his name, for he wrote a veryentertaining book. Dear old Dr. Dwight, thePresident of Yale College, started from NewHaven, a hundred years ago, and jumbled aboutthe New England states and wrote an accountof them in just the same way. Our friend Mr.Lummis started with his dog, both on foot, fromChiUicothe in Ohio and walked to Los Angelesin California. The dog died, but Mr. Lummiswrote a very entertaining book about the jour-ney. But Dr. Dwight is in heaven; I supposethe English doctor is, for if he were alive, he
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INTRODUCTORY 7 must be one hundred and thirteen years old; andMr. Lummis is too busy with his magazine to startagam. So I am writing these Hnes, not so muchfor what they tell as to call the attention ofreaders to what they do not tell. Think of thegreat voids of ignorance! Think how little youknow about North Dakota or Idaho! Of course modern science answers that weshould travel ourselves. We should see withour own eyes and hear with our ears and under-stand with our hearts the wonderful thingswhich are in our own country, and then shouldturn round and tell them to others. As Tasso says, When I am left to tell in others ear The wonders seen, and whisper, I was there. But in face of this scientific course there aredifficulties. One, it costs so much to travel inAmerica. I can go about anywhere in Spain orSwitzerland, and at the end of the week I onlyhave to draw for twenty-five dollars from mybanker. But in America, wherever I go, therailways make me pay so much, and the hotels 8 TARRY

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