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Excerpt from Vacation Cruising: In Chesapeake and Delaware Bays The plan of spending this vacation on the water grew gradually, and at last commended itself to my judgment, because it was cheap, full of health, and promised as complete a change in mode of life as one could hope to obtain. Furthermore, as I proposed partly utilizing the time by such natural history studies and observations as would not consume brain-power faster than it was created, some few books, a microscope, plant-press, and paper were required. 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.