Under the Southern cross in South America . MAIN STREET, HAVANA. HE AkTADES, HAVANA -FLOWER OF TFIE ANTILLES l thusiasm,—why turn our backs to it and seek far-off shores? A mountain, when limned against the perspective of the far hori-zon appears bkie and of magnificent proportions, with its contourstanding out in bold relief against the skyline, but on near approachit loses much of its impressi^-eness, and finally, when we reach it,we find it dull and uninteresting, nothing more than stones andboulders and stunted ^?egetation. It is the same with many foreign resorts. We conceive them asplace
Under the Southern cross in South America . MAIN STREET, HAVANA. HE AkTADES, HAVANA -FLOWER OF TFIE ANTILLES l thusiasm,—why turn our backs to it and seek far-off shores? A mountain, when limned against the perspective of the far hori-zon appears bkie and of magnificent proportions, with its contourstanding out in bold relief against the skyline, but on near approachit loses much of its impressi^-eness, and finally, when we reach it,we find it dull and uninteresting, nothing more than stones andboulders and stunted ^?egetation. It is the same with many foreign resorts. We conceive them asplaces of beauty and interest, but when we visit them they fall farshort of our expectations. Within our own confines and around our coasts are sights and at-tractions quite as worth} of visiting as any the Eastern Hemispherecan offer from a scenic standpoint. Of all the regions adjacent to the United States, probably noneare more attractive or present such varied scenes of both naturaland artificial beauty as the lands lying in and around the greenwaters of th
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