. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. LETTER FOURTH. CROSSING Dear Boys and Girls: N my first letter I told you. somethingabout the way people cross oceans;perhaps you would like to know afew things, also, about crossing moun-tains. There is a considerable difference be-tween the two undertakings, yet sometimespeople have to do about as queer things inthe one as they do in the other. When, in America, I was thinking and pLm-ning about this visit to Europe, it seemed to methat it would be quite an easy matter to get fromLondon to Rome. The whole of Euro
. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. LETTER FOURTH. CROSSING Dear Boys and Girls: N my first letter I told you. somethingabout the way people cross oceans;perhaps you would like to know afew things, also, about crossing moun-tains. There is a considerable difference be-tween the two undertakings, yet sometimespeople have to do about as queer things inthe one as they do in the other. When, in America, I was thinking and pLm-ning about this visit to Europe, it seemed to methat it would be quite an easy matter to get fromLondon to Rome. The whole of Europe takesup but a small part of the map of the easterncontinent, and although I knew, of course, thatthere are some big countries and big people in it, 48 UNCLE JOHN UPON HIS TRA VELS. still I somehow imagined that one could runacross it, from north to south at all events, verymuch as he might take a run from Chicagodown to Cairo. Uncle John, in his simplicity —and all old men who have scarcely been out ofsight of their own chimney-tops are simple—didnot realize that it is almost fifteen hundred
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