Around the World

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Excerpt from Around the World: Sketches of Travel Through Many Lands and Over Many Seas The writer of the following pages has traveled in every State and Territory of the United States, Canada, Cuba, and the East, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Greece, Switzerland, Tyrol, Denmark, and Sweden, in whose company A. F. Shanafelt visited the ruins of Baalbec, roamed through the crooked street called "Straight" of Damascus, bathed in the Jordan near its source, and feasted at the summit of the Pyramids. The journey of which the following pages contain a running account was undertaken by the writer mainly for the recovery of health, he having been paralyzed three times within ten years. 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.