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Excerpt from The World in the Stereoscope: A Series of Sketches, Original and Selected The accumulation of objects which lie within such a plan as this is immense, and the task of selecting has been proportionately difficult. A vast multitude of interesting objects must be left unmentioned. It would be comparatively easy to add an explanatory catalogue to the illustra tions, or to gather into a volume a large number of geographical and historical facts connected in a mere general way with these particular views. But it was thought essential that such a manual should actually describe scenes and places shown in the views. A book consisting of a mere aggregation of names and facts geographically arranged would, in fact, not explain any illustrations at all. On the other hand, a mere catalogue of the views, numbered and described in detail, could not be used practically inthe school-room. The present series of sketches, independent of one another, written or selected to explain the views, embracing a large amount of geographical and historical information, yet possessed of independent interest, and arranged for use as a separate study, or in the reading classes, seemed to meet all the requirements of the case. To give variety to the descriptions, and especially to the exercises, when the volume is used in the reading classes, a large num ber of poetical selections, descriptive generally of the same scenes, have been introduced in the appropriate connections. 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.