Photographic Reproductions of the Most Magnificent Edifices, the Most Interesting Remains and the Most Beautiful Scenes on the Earth’s Surface WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY WM. S. WALSH PHILADELPHIA HENRY ALTEMUS 1894 Copyrighted, 1894, by Henry Altemus Altemus’ Bookbindery, Philadelphia...

TRAVEL is the greatest of educators, the greatest of civilizers. To come in contact with men and manners different from those to which we have been accustomed by birth is to broaden the mind; to teach it forbearance, sympathy, wisdom; to rob it of its philistinism; to make it cosmopolitan and not provincial. To come face to face with the great monuments of the past and of the present, to see what man has done and is doing, is to get a new idea of the vastness, the imaginative strength, the creat