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Rhine, and the German watering-places; that brings us to the first of September.
Then Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Saxony, Bohemia, and Austria to Vienna.
Vienna to Trieste, cross the Adriatic to Venice, through Italy to Naples, occupy-
ing two and a half months.

On the middle of November we leave Naples for Palermo, Messina, and Alexandria, arriving at Cairo about the first of December. After spending two weeks enjoying the mild and balmy atmosphere of the resting-place of the Pharaohs, we proceed up the Nile to the Second Cataract, which excursion generally occupies two months if in small boats. Steamers now make the ascent of the Nile. On returning to Cairo the first of March, having made a trip to Suez, to visit the spot whence the Children of Israel crossed the Red Sea, we pass through the Suez Canal, take steamer for Jaffa, spending the month of March and first week in April visiting Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Jericho, and the Jordan; traveling through the centre of Syria, via the Lake of Galilee, to Damascus; from Damascus to the ruins of Baalbec, thence to Beyrout, where we again take steamer for Constantinople, passing Tripoli, Latakia, Alexandretta, Rhodes, Smyrna, and the Dardanelles, or by another route-more direct-stopping at Cyprus, Rhodes, and Smyrna; from Constantinople to Marseilles via Athens, arriving in Paris about the first of May.

FIFTH TOUR.

Should you not wish to return to Paris or London after your long absence, you may take steamer at Marseilles for Barcelona, then to Madrid by rail, making the same trip described in our tour through Spain. This trip will occupy nearly two months. This tour should not cost you over $350 extra. These estimates are based on first-class rates and a liberal expenditure.

Experience has shown, when traveling abroad, that while on railway cars and steamers first class, the expenses are about $10 per day; second class, $7—that is, traveling about twelve hours per day; if day and night, nearly double. This rule will apply as well when crossing the Atlantic on some lines. If you remain a long time in a cheap country, you may make your expenses average $3 50 or $4 per day; for instance: A tour of one year, spending three weeks on the Nile, two months in the Holy Land, may be made for $2120; viz.:

This, it will be recollected, is first class. There is no second class on the Nile or in Syria—that is, nominal second class; but you have many classes of boats on the Nile, and many classes of horses in the Holy Land. Don't bargain for low rates, or you will be served accordingly.

The same can be done for about $300 less, second class.

Continent, occupying two and a half months, viz.: via London, Cologne, Basle, Lucerne, St. Gothard Pass, Lake Maggiore, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, to Southampton. An additional hundred dollars would pay for a fine excursion through Great Britain, taking the steamer at Queenstown. By reversing this route, going first to Vienna via Berlin, and returning via Venice and Milan to Genoa, fifty additional dollars will pay your expenses to Naples via Florence and Rome, returning by Marseilles to Paris.

It is absolutely necessary, when traveling in Europe by railway, to be at the station full fifteen minutes before the starting-time, in order to get your ticket, as well as to attend to your baggage, see it checked, or placed on the cars. The quantity

of luggage you can take inside the car depends on whether you are first class or not, first-class passengers always having more privileges.

Always refer to your guide-book before you arrive at a city, and make up your mind at what hotel you intend to stop, and, when pestered by employés or commissionaires, name the hotel as if an old visitor.

In describing routes, it is almost impossible to tell a traveler which he or she ought to take, as it depends entirely on one's tastes or the time one has to spare. One might prefer to stop at Birmingham to examine the manufacture of guns, while another would prefer visiting Coventry to see some thirty thousand persons employed in the weaving and dyeing of ribbons; another, with a taste for the fine arts and the beautiful in nature, would prefer visiting Chatsworth, the lovely palace and grounds of the Duke of Devonshire; while still another would prefer, above all, to visit the classic grounds of the Bard of Avon, to sit in the high-backed chair, in the chimney-corner where he courted the lovely daughter of old Dame Hathaway, or stand on that simple stone under which lie his mortal remains in the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon; some may have time and taste for all, some for only one; we will consequently describe the most prominent routes in a direct line, or nearly so, asking the traveler to examine his map on arriving at each stoppingplace, find in the index the names of places of importance in the vicinity, read them carefully, then diverge or continue as his tastes or time may dictate.

In Great Britain most of the routes are commenced from London, as you may eater the British Isles at Queenstown, Glasgow, Liverpool, Southampton, New Haven, Dover, Folkstone, or Harwich; at whichever point you enter you have only to reverse the route to London, then commence from that capital.

THE BEST AND MOST DIRECT ROUTES FROM LONDON TO THE PRINCIPAL PORTS, CITIES, AND PLACES OF INTEREST IN EUROPE,

ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA.

There is a line of steamers (the Messageries Maritimes) running direct from Mar-8 seilles weekly. The sea voyage, howev-eastern Railway in 4 hours; fare, $7 50. er, is much longer. The Brindisi route is preferable.

London to Barcelona (daily), via Paris, London to Cologne (daily), via Calais and Bordeaux, Bayonne, Pampeluna, and Sar- Dover, Brussels, Liege, and Verviers ; agossa; time, 72 hours; fare, $50. Or via time, 19 hours; fare, $18. Also via HarParis, Marseilles, and by steamer to Bar-wich, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Emerich, and celona.

THE BEST AND MOST DIRECT ROUTES FROM LONDON

London to Constance, Switzerland (dai- | Macon, Mont Cenis, Turin, and Bologna; ly), via Calais, Brussels, Cologne; time, 58 hours; fare, $34. Also via Harwich, Cologne, in 34 hours; fare, $27. Also via Frankfort, Stuttgart, Ulm, and Friedrichshafen; time, 49 hours; fare, $35 50.

London to Constantinople, via Paris, Macon, Mont Cenis, Turin, Bologna, and Ancona (from Ancona the Austrian Lloyd's steamers sail weekly, touching at Athens and Smyrna); time, 10 days. Or via Paris, Marseilles, and the Messageries Maritimes' steamers; time, 8 days; fare, $114. Or via Cologne, Linz, Vienna, Basiasch, by the Danube to Rustchuk, Varna, and Constantinople; time, 10 days; fare, $110.

London to Copenhagen (daily), via Calais and Dover, Brussels, Cologne, Minden, Hanover, Lunebourg, Hamburg, Kiel, thence to Korsör by steamer, and Copenhagen by rail; time, 46 hours; fare, $38 50. Or via Hamburg by steamer direct, Altona, Kiel, and Korsör; time, 4 days; fare, $16.

London to Damascus, via Paris, Marseilles, and Beyrout, steamers weekly from Marseilles; time, 13 days; fare, $163. Or via Paris, Mont Cenis, Turin, Bologna, Ancona, and by the Austrian Lloyd's steamers to Beyrout, and diligence to Damascus; time, 15 days; fare about the same as the other route.

London to Dantzic, via Cologne and Berlin (daily); time, 52 hours; fare, $14 50. London to Dieppe (daily), via Newhaven; time, 10 hours; fare, $4 50.

London to Dover, several times daily; time (express), 1 h. 45 m.

London to Dresden (daily), via Calais, Brussels, Cologne; time, 42 hours; fare, $35 25. Daily, via Harwich, in 40 hours; fare, $25. Or via Rotterdam by steamer, rail to Oberhausen, in 40 hours; fare, $28. London to Dublin, twice a week by steamer, in 74 hours; fare, $5. Also by rail (daily).

London to Dusseldorf, by steamer, stopping at Rotterdam, then up the Rhine; time, 30 hours; fare, $7 50. Or via Harwich and Rotterdam, in 22 hours; fare, $12 26. Or via Calais and Aix-la-Chapelle; time, 22 hours; fare, $19.

London to Edinburgh, twice each day; time, 12 hours.

fare, $56 50; time, 48 hours. Also via Marseilles, Genoa, and Spezzia; time, 42 hours; fare, $44 44. Also via Paris, Strasbourg, Basle, Lucerne, Fuellen, St. Gothard Pass, Belinzona, Milan, and Bologna.

London to Frankfort-on-the-Main (daily), via Calais and Dover, Brussels, Liege, Verviers, and Cologne; time, 24 hours; fare, $21 50. Or via Paris and Cologne ; time, 27 hours; fare, $30. Or via Harwich, Rotterdam, Cologne, and Coblentz ; time, 27 hours; fare, $16 25—that is, by express from Cologne. If by steamer from Cologne to Mayence, the time will be six hours longer.

London to Freiburg, Germany (daily), via Calais and Dover, Brussels, Cologne, and Mayence; time, 31 h. 30 m.; fare, $26. Or via Paris and Strasbourg; time, 22 hours; fare, $29 25. If to Paris via Dieppe and Newhaven, time 6 hours longer, and fare $7 50 cheaper.

London to Geneva (daily), via Calais and Dover, Paris and Macon; time, 27 hours (express); fare, $27 50. Or via Dieppe and Newhaven; time, 32 hours (actual traveling); fare, $20.

London to Genoa, via Calais and Dover, Paris, Marseilles, and Nice (daily); time, 30 hours; fare, $29 50. Or via Dieppe and Newhaven; time, 36 hours; fare, $22.

London to Gibraltar (weekly), by steamers from Liverpool; fare, $47.

London to Glasgow, several times each day; time, 12 hours.

London to Gottenburg, Sweden (weekly); fare, $15 75.

London to the Hague (daily), via Harwich and Rotterdam; time, 14 hours; fare, $7.

London to Hamburg (daily), via Harwich and Rotterdam; time, 28 hours; fare, $19. Via Ostend, Cologne, and Hanover (daily); time, 31 hours; fare, $30. Or by steamer direct; time, 40 hours; fare, $10.

London to Hanover (daily), via Harwich and Rotterdam; time, 28 hours; fare, $18. Or via Ostend, Brussels, and Cologne; time, 27 hours; fare, $25 50.

London to Havre (daily), via Southampton; time, 10 h. 30 m.; fare, $6 75.

London to Heidelberg, via Calais and Dover, Paris and Strasbourg (daily); time, London to Florence (daily), via Paris, 28 hours; fare, $30. Or via Calais, Brus