Excerpt from British Highways and Byways From a Motor Car: Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour There are three ways in which a tourist may oh tain a good idea of Britain during a summer's vaca tion of three or four months. He may cover most places of interest after the Old manner, by railway train. This 'will have to be supplemented by many and expensive carriage drives if he wishes to see the most beautiful country and many of the most inter esting places. As Prof. Goldwin Smith says, Rail ways in England do not ...
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Excerpt from British Highways and Byways From a Motor Car: Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour There are three ways in which a tourist may oh tain a good idea of Britain during a summer's vaca tion of three or four months. He may cover most places of interest after the Old manner, by railway train. This 'will have to be supplemented by many and expensive carriage drives if he wishes to see the most beautiful country and many of the most inter esting places. As Prof. Goldwin Smith says, Rail ways in England do not follow the lines of beauty in very many cases, and the Opportunity afforded of really seeing England from a railway car window is poor indeed. The tourist must keep a constant eye on the time-tables, and in many of the more re tired places he will have to spend a day when an hour would suffice quite as well could he get away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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