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Excerpt from Romantic America The scene in the Spanish mission typifies many a charmed spot where the Old World - doubly picturesque by contrast lives on in the New. We sometimes forget that the hoary ruins and manors of Tidewater Virginia, the half-deserted Georgian villages of New England, the Little Paris of Creole New Orleans, all belong to us as truly as Hoboken or Oshkosh. The large view of the Yosemite Valley typifies our wealth of wild nature. Last year the American people spent something like two hundred millions in seeing Switzerland. We still know next to nothing of our own more splendid Sierras. We grow enthusiastic over small French and German caverns, yet remain ignorant of the stupendous underworld of Kentucky. We make pilgrimages to the colored terraces and geysers of New Zealand, yet will not pause on the way home to see whether Wyoming does not hold in trust a more astonishing museum of natural marvels and beauties. We scramble among Himalayan gorges without realizing that deep in the bosom Of Arizona there waits the supreme vision. 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.