Excerpt from Rambles in Europe: In Ireland, Scotland, England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and France, With Historical Facts Relating to Scotch-American Families of Ireland This work is largely a personal narrative, which has been prepared in the Spare hours ofa busy life. Its object is to tell of countries visited during the ramblings of five months, of people seen, of their cus toms and thoughts, their systems of government, and the influence of those governments upon the people. It is to speak of friendships formed, of persons absent from me, but who in spirit will abide with me forever. 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.