Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 . A CINGHALESE GENTLEMAN GREATER BRITAIN: A BECOBD OF TBAVEL IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES DURING 1866 AND 1867. BY CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE. WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE, 18 6 9. HAii II57 Oftt fromMrs. Etta F. WinterSept. ao 1932 TO MY FATHER / DEDICATETHIS BOOK. C. W. Do PREFACE. In 1866 and 1867 I followed England round the world;everywhere I was in English-speaking, or in English-gov-erned lands. If I remarked that climate, soil, manners oflife, tha
Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 . A CINGHALESE GENTLEMAN GREATER BRITAIN: A BECOBD OF TBAVEL IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES DURING 1866 AND 1867. BY CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE. WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE, 18 6 9. HAii II57 Oftt fromMrs. Etta F. WinterSept. ao 1932 TO MY FATHER / DEDICATETHIS BOOK. C. W. Do PREFACE. In 1866 and 1867 I followed England round the world;everywhere I was in English-speaking, or in English-gov-erned lands. If I remarked that climate, soil, manners oflife, that mixture with other peoples had -modified theblood, I saw, too, that in essentials the race was alwaysone. The idea which in all the length of my travels has beenat once my fellow and my guide—a key wherewith to un-lock the hidden things of strange new lands—is a concep-tion, however imperfect, of tne grandeur of our race, al-ready girdling the earth, which it is destined, perhaps,eventually to overspread. In America, the peoples of the world are being fusedtogether, but the
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