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Excerpt from Heads and Tales of Travellers and Travelling: A Book for Everybody, Going Anywhere Orkneys, before he could utter the sponsorial appellation of Mr. John Robinson. We can fancy the ponderous penman of the Rambler mystified by the transit of the trains, and ad vising us, after his own sonorous fashion, thus The physiology, sir, of travelling and travellers which is proposed to be the prominent characteristic of this portable duodecimo, should present an animated picture of that unceasing movement which is constantly impelling mu table humanity forwards and backwards, up wards and downwards, left and right, over the solid, or uid, or gaseous portions of the world. T 0 make the attempt is to achieve something, but to achieve what is attempted, is to create a wonder for posterity. 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."