Excerpt from Across Western Waves and Home in a Royal Capital: America for Modern Athenians; Modern Athens for Americans; A Personal Narrative in Tour and Time Hese glimpses of a vast continent i were written for my friends, and have been printed at the request of some who desire to know where I went, and how I was received; what I thought, heard, and saw; and how I liked our trans Atlantic cousins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.