Excerpt from Notes of a Ramble Through France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and Belgium: And of a Visit to the Scenes of the Lady of the Lake The reader will find here the hasty notes of a traveller who moved on from scene to scene in the easy pursuit of amusement, - simple memo randums of daily occurrences or the rapid tran script of impressions made on the mind as the eye glanced over the surfaces of things - objects are described as they appeared on a cursory survey, and men as I saw them in places of public resort - where, indeed, as it regards a large portion of the Continent, the principal part of their time may be said to be spent. 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.