Excerpt from An Autumn Tour: In the United States and Canada There are few of the usual attractions to tempt the ordinary tourist to America. The voyage across the Atlantic is always rather formidable, the cost Of travelling is high especially Since the Civil War, and the country has but few antiquities or historical memorials, - its cities and public buildings being mere copies of those in Europe. Even its natural beauties, great as they are, have scarcely enough speciality about them to tempt the traveller to undertake the voyage and the many hundred miles of wearisome travel necessary to reach them. 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.