WILSON'S LANTERN JOURNEYS: A SERIES OF DESCRIPTIONS OF Journeys at Home and Abroad, INCLUDING THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, FOR USE WITH VIEWS IN THE MAGIC LANTERN OR THE STEREOSCOPE. BY EDWARD L. WILSON, EDITOR OF "THE PHILADELPHIA PHOTOGRAPHER." FIFTH EDITION. PHILADELPHIA: EDWARD L. WILSON. KD 2550 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, BY EDWARD L. WILSON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. PRINTED BY WM. J. DORNAN, PHILADELPHIA. PREFACE. M ANY times while travelling in the older countries, as well as my own, I have wished very much that everybody conld see all I was privileged to see. But as that could not be, I thought I would like to tell all about them. But the fact that many readier pens than mine have done so, heads me off in that direction, and leaves me but one corner to occupy, and which I may not try to keep out of. The magic lantern and the stereoscope would both be much more enjoyable and instructive in their way, if, when we are looking upon the lovely pictures which blessed photography produces for those instruments, we could also have at hand some little bits of information concerning the places and things we are viewing. It is this little corner, this great want which I thrust my work within, hoping to fill up the gap until something better comes along. When one travels abroad, there are many odd hours of waiting for trains, and for your dinners at the restaurants, and for the servants to come after you ring the bell, and for things to move generally. Such I filled making notes of the things which I saw. Here are some of them, and more besides, and I commend the whole to those who are interested, trusting it may be useful. And now we add descriptions of the beautiful things of all nations, as shown at our Centennial Exhibition in 1876. PHILADELPHIA. E. L. W. |