Excerpt from The Boy Travellers in Southern Europe Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through, Italy, Southern France, and Spain: With Visits to Gibraltar and the Islands of Sicily and Malta Nearly all of the routes described in this volume have been personally travelled by the author, and some of them more than once, and nearly every city, town, or other place of interest which has been visited by The Boy Travellers in Southern Europe was previously visited by him. As far as possible he has aimed to speak from personal knowledge, but he has not hesitated to use the work of other travellers over the same ground, and believes that he has done so to the advantage of the reader. The authorities thus drawn upon have been mentioned in the pages of the volume, and need not be repeated in the Preface. Statistical informa tion concerning populations, manufactures, commerce, military and naval forces, and the like, have been obtained from official sources, or, where such were lacking, from the most authentic of non-official publications. Dimensions of buildings, parks, etc., heights of mountains, and kindred measurements have been taken from guide-books, either general or local, and in some cases from measurements made 'by the author during his visits to the places described. The writer hereby tenders his acknowledgments to the courtesy of Messrs. Harper Brothers for the privilege of using such of the illustrations as were originally prepared for other of their publications. 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.