Excerpt from Circling the Globe: Letters From Foreign Lands With Biographical Sketch Mrs. Brotherton and I had sailed from new York on the Steamship Zeeland of the Red Star Line, on May l6th, 1903, for Antwerp. Belgium, and had seen the magnificent Cathedral, one of the finest in Europe, with the great painting of Rubens, Descent from the Cross, and to Brussels and the battlefield of Waterloo and back to the 'hague, Amsterdam, the Island of Marken in the Zuyder Zee, and then to Cologne, with its great Cathe dral, and then up the Rhine to Mayence, Frankfort-ou the Main, Heidelberg, with its great University, to Strassburg, with its wonderful clock, and to B'asle, Zurich, Lucerne and Geneva in Switzerland, and through St. Gothard's tunnel into Italy, taking in Milan with its statue-crowned Cathedral, through the many tunnels to Genoa on the Mediterranean Sea, and back to Lucerne, and then to Munich in Bavaria; Nuremburg, with itsancient fortifications, then to Dresden in Saxony, and to Berlin with its many places of interest; then to Hamburg and across the storm - tossed North Sea to Leith, Scot land, the port of the city of Edinburgh, taking in Melrose and the Scott country. Then up by Sterling Castle, over the Highlands, with its heather and rough-coated cattle. Across the Lakes made famous by Scott, and to Glasgow, and to Ayr, the home of Burns, then to Stran raer, and across the Irish Sea to Larne, Ireland, and down to Belfast and Dublin and across the Irish Sea again to Liverpool, England. To Manchester, Chester, of curious interest, to Stratford-ou - Avon, with Shake speare memories, to Oxford with its Universities, Lon don with Parliament, Westminster Tower, London Bridge, and down the Thames to its mouth, passing Greenwich, where longitude begins, and down to Brigh ton on the South, then to Dover, and across the Channel to Calais, France; the city of Paris, with its environs of thrilling interest; the tomb of Napoleon; down the Seine into the open country forty miles below the city, among the French villagers and where the aviators were already learning how to fly, and back to Antwerp, re turning on the 'kroonland to New York, and having visited the various places of interest in the British Isles and Western Europe explains the fact that in our globe Circling these interesting and frequent routes of travel were omitted from our itinerary. 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.