Greatest wonders of the world, as seen and described by famous writers

by Unknown

For the kind permission to use The Mammoth Cave, Fuji-San and The Antarctic, and The Yellowstone, my best thanks are due to Messrs. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co., and Mr. Rudyard Kipling.

E. S.

New York, September, 1900.

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.

Illustrations

Mer de Glace, Mont Blanc	Switzerland	[Frontispiece]
		FACING PAGE
Blue Grotto	Italy	[4]
Chamouni, Mer de Glace	Switzerland	[12]
The Dead Sea	Palestine	[20]
Mount Vesuvius	Italy	[28]
The Falls of the Rhine	Germany	[40]
An Ice Floe	Antarctic	[52]
The Desert of Sahara	Africa	[60]
Fingal’s Cave	Scotland	[64]
The Himilayas	India	[72]
Niagara Falls	North America	[80]
Niagara Falls in Winter	North America	[88]
Fuji-San	Japan	[92]
The Cedars of Lebanon	Syria	[100]
The Giant’s Loom, Giant’s Causeway	Ireland	[104]
The Keystone, Giant’s Causeway	Ireland	[108]
The Great Glacier of the Selkirks	Canada	[116]
Lava Cascade Flow	Hawaii	[124]
Trollhätta	Sweden	[132]
Canyon of the Colorado	North America	[136]
The Rock of Gibraltar	Spain	[140]
The Rock of Gibraltar	Spain	[144]
Thingvalla	Iceland	[148]
Rocking Stones, Land’s End	England	[156]
Falls of the Zambesi	Africa	[172]
The Dragon-Tree	Teneriffe	[180]
Mount Shasta	North America	[184]
The City of the Lagoons	Italy	[192]
First Cataract of the Nile	Africa	[200]
Mont Blanc	Switzerland	[208]
Aiguille du Dru, Alps	Switzerland	[210]
The Vale of Kashmir	India	[216]
The Lachine Rapids	Canada	[228]
Lake Rotorua	New Zealand	[232]
The Big Trees of California	North America	[240]
Gersoppa Falls	India	[248]
Etna	Sicily	[256]
The Garden of the Gods	America	[264]
The Iron Gates of the Danube	Turkey	[280]
The High Woods	South America	[304]
The Yo-semité Valley	North America	[328]
The Golden Horn	Turkey	[344]
Costing Springs, Yellowstone	North America	[352]

WONDERS OF THE WORLD

THE BLUE GROTTO OF CAPRI

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