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CONTENTS.
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INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER I.
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Why and How this Volume Was Published-The Au-
thor's Father-Came from England-Settled in Pennsyl-
vania-Asked His Son to Make Pilgrimage-His Sudden
Death-Correspondence Lasting Sixty Years — White,
Roaring Billows Cannot Drown Love Letters-Bereave-
ment, Sorrow, Labors and Cares Call for Rest and Change
- A Friend Indeed - Getting Ready to Go - Passport,
and Letters from Prominent Men - Governor Beaver's
Letter-Congressman Osborne's Letter-Other Letters—
Taking Leave America's Shores Sink in Silver-At
Liverpool-Through England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
France; Paris and London-Relatives Helpful-Weather
Most Auspicious-Things Pictured on the Spot-Good
Wishes Grasp Each Reader by the Hand.
CHAPTER II.
FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA..
Saying "Good Bye" to Relatives, Partner and Friends
-Looking Down on Luzerne and Other Counties—In
New Jersey-Rushing Through Cities While Long, White,
Guardian Arms Rise and Fall-In New York-Central
Park-Monuments and Monsters from Beyond the Sea-
Carriages for Pale Babies, and Proud Millionaires-Took
Baggage to Steamship-At Coney Island; its Hotels, its
Flowers, its Swimmers, its Wine, its Women, its Tower,
its Friends A Sea-shell Containing Sixty-five Master
Musicians The Gardens Blossom With Fire-A Place
to Learn-A Place to Fall-Sham Battle-Bay Full of
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Ships at Night The Heavens Frescoed With Colored
Lights-Statue of Liberty-Brooklyn Bridge; an Artifi-
cial Midnight Rainbow-Ready to Wave a Farewell to
My Native Land.
CHAPTER III.
"BEHOLD ALSO THE SHIPS"
Twenty-three Hundred Miles of Billows-Passengers
Variously Engaged - Look Through the Great Ship;
Where Built; Her Size; One-tenth of a Mile Long; Her
Weight; Her Mines of Coal-Passengers-Crew-Two
Stories Under Water-The Steerage-The Gilded Saloon
-Ten Thousand Horses of Steel to Conquer the Sea-
The Raging Furnaces and Sweating Firemen on the Floor
of the Ship "You Are Chalked "-The Vast, Virtuous
Ocean-Noon in the Deep-Time Annihilated-The Iron
Tunnel - Thirty-five Boat Loads of Fuel-Man Moves
All the Oceans-Queenstown-Letters-On to Liverpool.
ON THE GREAT DEEP.
CHAPTER IV.
On Board the Ship-Hot Day-An Acre of Waving
Handkerchiefs, Damp With Tears and Perspiration-Band
Plays "Auld Lang Syne "-Moving off Through a Laby-
rinth of Great Things -Other Europe-bound Steamers-
Officers Vigilant-Hills Sink With the Sun at the West
End of a Broad, Silver Avenue-Hot Below Deck-My
Bedroom-My Comrades-The Spouting Whale-Ship
Fare-Sunday on the Sea-Religious Services-Fog-
Birds- Porpoises - Big Fish-Colored Fish - The Sea
Tries to Mimic the Heavens-A World of Water Five
Miles Deep; its Gleaming Arms Encircle the Icy North
and the Spicy Groves of "Far Cathay"-Friends on
Deck-What Sea Water is Like-People from all Over
the United States and Canada-A Gallant Earl and His
Fair Countess; Gentle Folks; They Amuse and Treat
Poor Children- Names of Some Fellow-passengers-
Ocean Rough-Many Ill-The Writer Keeps Well and
Sways in a Hammock Worth Fifteen Hundred Thousand
Dollars-Cool on the Sea in July-Ireland Seen Through
Fog-Pleasant Sight-The Old "Stow-a-way" Receives
a Sovereign-Off Queenstown-Sailing Under Birds on
the Irish Sea.
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CHAPTER V.
THE IRISH SEA, AND LIVERPOOL.
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Sunday Afternoon of Beauty and Peace- - Heaven
Weds Earth - Mountain Peaks in Wales - Nobility,
Peasantry, Beauty and Genius Sing on Deck-Twilight
Enchanting-Ladies Scream and Faint-Revolving Lights
Twinkle on England's Shores - Liverpool — Our Ship
Linked to 18,000 Pounds of Steel on the Floor of the Sea
-Mr. Puckey Finds Me-Liverpool Docks - Cost Hun-
dreds of Millions of Dollars-A Vast Ship-safe - The
World's Merchandise Piled on Chiseled Rocks-Acres of
American Pork and Lard-Handsome Ladies-Horses a
"Ton Weight"—A Horse Under Seven Tons of Plate
Glass-Great Buildings - Forlorn Creatures - Railway
Trains Roaring Under Hundreds of Ships-A Wilkes-
Barré Girl Met - Mighty Ships Cushioned in Granite
Vases The Angel of Light Places Her Jeweled Foot on
the Flowing Mane of the Sea.
CHAPTER VI.
LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.
Liverpool Buildings Gloomy-Seemed to Show Mourn-
ing-Death on Shipboard-Pet Names-Traveling Under-
ground-English Cars, Locomotives and Stations-Thirty-
six Miles in Forty-five Minutes-Oaks Killed by Smoke-
English Landscapes · Great, Busy Manchester - Ship
Canal - Magnificent Hall - Forty Acres of Masterpieces
in Art, Machinery, Architecture, and Flora-Crowds of
Handsome, Well-dressed Women - Gardens Blooming
with Colored Lights - Fountains of Gilded Water - A
Sweet Voice-Riding Through Long, Dark Highways in
Granite-Hedges, Stone Walls-Under Three Miles of
Rock-Acres of Smoking Chimneys-The Guest of Kind
People Pleasant Walk Extensive Buildings - Great
Co-operative Concern Street-cars Dummies-Road
Engines.
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YORK AND WHITBY.
CHAPTER VII.
Through Farms-August First, Wheat not Ripe-City
of York - Its Beauty-Its Antiquity-Promenade on Its
Old and Beautiful Wall-Roman Stone Coffins-Old
Places-Old Church Hidden in a City - Magnificent Old
York Minster; A Window Four Hundred Years Old
Makes the Sun Paint Rare Pictures, "Worth a King-
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