PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
FORTY THOUSAND MILES OVER LAND AND WATER.
CHAPTER I. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
CHAPTER II. NEW YORK, HUDSON RIVER, AND NIAGARA FALLS.
CHAPTER III. THE DOMINION OF CANADA.
CHAPTER IV. THE AMERICAN LAKES, AND THE CENTRES OF LEARNING, FASHION, AND GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER V. TO THE FAR WEST.
CHAPTER VI. SAN FRANCISCO AND THE YOSEMITE VALLEY.
CHAPTER VII. ACROSS THE PACIFIC.
CHAPTER VIII. COACHING THROUGH THE NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND; ITS HOT LAKES AND GEYSERS.
CHAPTER IX. THE SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND: ITS ALPS AND MOUNTAIN LAKES.
CHAPTER X. TASMANIA AND VICTORIA.
CHAPTER XI. NEW SOUTH WALES AND QUEENSLAND.
CHAPTER XII. WITHIN THE BARRIER REEF, THROUGH TORRES' STRAITS TO BATAVIA.
CHAPTER XIII. NETHERLANDS INDIA.
CHAPTER XIV. THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
CHAPTER XV. THE METROPOLIS OF INDIA AND ITS HIMALAYAN SANATORIUM.
CHAPTER XVI. THE SHRINES OF THE HINDU FAITH.
CHAPTER XVII. THE SCENES OF THE INDIAN MUTINY.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CITIES OF THE GREAT MOGUL.
CHAPTER XIX. GWALIOR AND RAJPUTANA.
CHAPTER XX. THE HOME OF THE PARSEES.
CHAPTER XXI. THROUGH EGYPT HOMEWARDS.
Title: Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water
The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America
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Frontispiece. Page 119.
FORTY THOUSAND MILES
OVER
LAND AND WATER
THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR THROUGH THE
BRITISH EMPIRE AND AMERICA
BY
MRS. HOWARD VINCENT
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
THIRD AND CHEAPER EDITION.
London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1886.
[All rights reserved.]
LONDON:
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.
TO
OUR FRIENDS,
THE CHILDREN OF THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE ORPHANAGE,
This Journal is Dedicated
BY
THEIR CONSTANT WELL-WISHERS.
