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Excerpt from An Autumn Tour in the United States: And Canada At intervals during recent years the members of my family have often, in a vague and lighthearted way, talked of a possible prospective trip to the United States and Canada. The idea was always regarded as visionary; but there was a fascination about it that induced us to return to it again and again. In the evening of a pleasant day in July of last year the conversation in the family circle was directed to a forthcoming holiday, and almost unconsciously we reverted to the old topic. In less time than it has taken to write these few lines a tour to the United States in the ensuing Autumn had been resolved upon. The unexpected had happened. Without delay I booked passages on the Cunard steamship "Umbria" for myself, for my daughter, and for my younger son. 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.