Pictures and Portraits of Foreign Travel (Classic Reprint)FB&C Limited, 2018 - 416 pages Excerpt from Pictures and Portraits of Foreign Travel The sugar refineries and soap factories are very exten sive. What with the murky atmosphere, and what with the soot arising from the soft coal, I doubt not but the de mand for the latter product exceeds the supply. It was cold and inhospitable when we rode through Sef ton Park, but the hedges surrounding the homes Of the aristocracy within their limits were green, luxuriant, and well-combed, and the silver plates, or the letters carved on the massive stone portals, told not the names of the owners of these mansions, but the name of each estate itself, such as Maple Grove, Oak Lodge, Stanley Park, and Worcester Place. 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. |
