Excerpt from Rambles in America, Past and Present, Vol. 1 IN dotting down these rambles by the wayside of America, the writer had the twofold object in View, that of uniting amusement with instruction to his readers, and in a pleasant, conversational way has endeavored to describe sights and scenes, by river and land, of this wonderful continent, at which, during a course of years. He has been personally present; at the same time, to relieve the volume from monotony, has introduced into these sketches, anecdotes of place and character in many phases, whenever and wherever they were to be met with during the sojournings of the author. In the concluding chapters of this book, a three-months' trip to England, Ireland, and Scotland is described in a cursory manner, which may prove interesting to people of all nationalities who love reading of past and present events. 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.