Excerpt from A Scamper Through Some Cities of America: Being a Record of a Three Months Tour in the United States and Canada A trip across the Atlantic was a much more serious undertaking not so very many years ago than it is to-day. Some business, and a desire to visit relations in Kalamazoo, Michigan, were the motives which induced me to cross the herring pond, and the following narrative is published at the solicitation of friends who had read the notes which I made during the tour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.