Contents

The Blue Grotto of Capri[1]
Alexandre Dumas.
Mount Blanc and Chamouni[7]
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Dead Sea[15]
Pierre Loti.
Mount Vesuvius[25]
Charles Dickens.
The Falls of the Rhine[39]
Victor Hugo.
In Arctic and Antarctic Seas[46]
I. Lord Dufferin.
II. W. G. Burn Murdoch.
The Desert of Sahara[55]
Eugène Fromentin.
Fingal’s Cave[62]
I. Sir Walter Scott.
II. John Keats.
In the Himalayas[71]
G. W. Steevens.
Niagara Falls[79]
I. Anthony Trollope.
II. Charles Dickens.
Fuji-San[90]
Sir Edwin Arnold.
The Cedars of Lebanon[98]
Alphonse de Lamartine.
The Giant’s Causeway[103]
William Makepeace Thackeray.
The Great Glacier of the Selkirks[113]
Douglas Sladen.
Mauna Loa[118]
Lady Brassey.
Trollhätta[129]
Hans Christian Andersen.
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado[134]
C. F. Gordon-Cumming.
The Rock of Gibraltar[139]
Augustus J. C. Hare.
Thingvalla[144]
Lord Dufferin.
Land’s End and Logan Rock[152]
John Ayrton Paris.
Mount Hekla[160]
Sir Richard F. Burton.
Victoria Falls[169]
David Livingstone.
The Dragon-Tree of Orotava[179]
Alexander von Humboldt.
Mount Shasta[183]
J. W. Boddam-Wheatham.
The Lagoons of Venice[189]
John Ruskin.
The Cataracts of the Nile[199]
Amelia B. Edwards.
In the Alps[205]
Théophile Gautier.
The Vale of Kashmir[212]
Andrew Wilson.
The Lake of Pitch[220]
Charles Kingsley.
The Lachine Rapids[228]
Douglas Sladen.
Lake Rotorua[232]
H. R. Haweis.
The Big Trees of California[239]
C. F. Gordon-Cumming.
Gersoppa Falls[248]
W. M. Yool.
Etna[254]
Alexandre Dumas.
Pike’s Peak and the Garden of the Gods[263]
Iza Duffus Hardy.
The Great Geysir of Iceland[268]
Sir Richard F. Burton.
The Rapids of the Danube[275]
William Beattie.
The Mammoth Cave[283]
Bayard Taylor.
Stromboli[295]
Alexandre Dumas.
The High Woods[302]
Charles Kingsley.
The Yo-semité Valley[323]
C. F. Gordon-Cumming.
The Golden Horn[342]
Alphonse de Lamartine.
The Yellowstone[352]
Rudyard Kipling.