Excerpt from Paris Exposition: Or Viewing England, France and Ireland
I have no excuse for publishing and launching this work upon an indulgent public. I went to the World"s Exposition at Paris to see something, and when I saw there were so few of the Americans or English speaking people at this, the greatest show the world has ever seen, I could not refrain from noting down what I believe would interest the American people; and since my return have put those notes into type and stamped them in this little book, so that my friends at home may have all the benefits which we enjoyed in England and on the Continent.
We have given more history, ancient and modern, than is usually given in works of travels, but we introduced it because we were satisfied the work would be incomplete without these facts. We have not given so much as to make it tiresome, but just enough to give the reader a fair understanding of the country and people which we are describing.
Our thoughts have run rather to the ancient than to the modern, and therefore olden things have been noted, when those more modern have been passed over with less notice.
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