Isabella Bird - A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

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The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

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Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home...

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The sunset has passed through every stage of beauty, through every glory of color, through riot and triumph, through pathos and tenderness, into a long, dreamy, painless rest, succeeded by the profound solemnity of the moonlight, and a stillness broken only by the night cries of beasts in the aromatic forests.

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I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

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