Excerpt from American Pictures Drawn With Pen and Pencil IR charles lyell commences the narrative of his Second Visit 10 f/ze Um'lea' States by saying, On leaving the wharf we had first been crammed into a diminutive steamer, which looked like a toy by the side of the larger ship of 1200 tons in which we were to cross the ocean. I was reminded, however, that this small craft was more than three times as large as one of the open caravels of Columbus in his first voyage, which was only 15 tons burden, and without a deck. It is indeed marvellous to reflect on the daring of the early adventurers; for Frobisher, in 1576. 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.