: A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands by Whittle Walter Andrew - Middle East Description and travel; Europe Description and travel

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OFF FOR NEW YORK.

Preparations--A Prayer and a Benediction--An Impatient Horse and a Run for Eternity--Strange Sceptre and Despotic Sway--Beauty in White Robes--Approaching the Metropolis--Business Heart of the New World--A Bright Face and a Cordial Greeting--An Hour with the President--More for a Shilling and Less for a Pound--A Stranger Dies in the Author's Arms--Namesake--Prospects of Becoming a Great Man--A Confused College Student--The Hour of Departure--Native Land. Page, 23

ON THE HIGH SEAS.

A Difficulty with the Officers of the Ship--A Parting Scene--Danger on the Atlantic--A Parallel Drawn--Liberty Enlightening the World--Life on the Ocean Wave--Friends for the Journey--The Ship a Little World--A Clown and his Partner--Birds of a Feather--Whales--Brain Food--Storm at Sea--A Frightened Preacher--Storm Rages--A Sea of Glory--Richard Himself Again--Land in Sight--Scene Described--Historic Castle--Voyage Ended--Two Irishmen. Page, 29

THE LAND OF BURNS.

English Railway Coaches--Millionaires, Crowned Heads, and Fools--A Conductor Caught on a Cow-catcher--Last Rose of Summer--Off on Foot to the Land of Burns--Appearance of Country and Condition of People--Destination Reached--Doctor Whitsitt and Oliver Twist--The Ploughman Poet--His Cottage--His Relics--His Work and Worth--His Grave and Monument--A Broad View of Life. Page, 38

EDINBURGH.

A Jolly Party of Americans--Dim-Eyed Pilgrim--Young Goslings--An American Goose Ranch--Birthplace of Robert Pollok and Mary Queen of Scots--The Boston of Europe--Home of Illustrious Men--A Monument to the Author--Monument to Sir Walter Scott--Edinburgh Castle--Murdered and Head Placed on the Wall--Cromwell's Siege--Stones of Power--A Dazzling Diadem--A Golden Collar--Baptized in Blood--Meeting American Friends. Page, 47

A TRAMP-TRIP THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS.

His Royal Highness and a Demand for Fresh Air--A Boy in his Father's Clothes--Among the Common People--Nature's Stronghold--Treason Found in Trust--Body Quartered and Exposed on Iron Spikes--Receiving a Royal Salute--Following no Road but a Winding River--Sleeveless Dresses and Dyed Hands--Obelisk to a Novelist and Poet--On the Scotch Lakes--Eyes to See but See Not--A Night of Rest and a Morning of Surprise--A Terrestrial Heaven--A Poetic Inspiration--A Deceptive Mountain--A Glittering Crown--Hard to Climb--An Adventure and a Narrow Escape--Johnson Gives Out--Put to Bed on the Mountain Side--On and Up--A Summit at Last--Niagara Petrified--Overtaken by the Night--Johnson Lost in the Mountains--A Fruitless Search--Bewildered--Exhausted--Sick. Page, 57

A GENERAL VIEW OF SCOTLAND.

Highlands and Lowlands--Locked up for Fifteen Days--The Need of a Good Sole--A Soft Side of a Rock--The Charm of Reading on the Spot--A Fearful Experience--Bit and Bridle--Thunder-Riven--Volcanic Eruption--Dangerous Pits--An Hundred-Eyed Devil--Gloomy Dens--Meeting an Enemy--Eyes Like Balls of Fire--Voice Like Rolling Thunder--A Speedy Departure--Leaping from Rock to Rock--Silver Thread among the Mountains--Imperishable Tablets--The Cave of Rob Roy and the land of the MacGregors--Lady of the Lake and Ellen's Isle--Lodging with Peasants and with Gentlemen--Rising in Mutiny--Strange Fuel--Character of Scotch People--Scotch Baptists--Sunrise at Two O'Clock in the Morning. Page, 67

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