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                         OVER THE OCEAN;
                                OR,
                        SIGHTS AND SCENES
                                IN
                          FOREIGN LANDS.

                                BY
                          CURTIS GUILD,

            EDITOR OF THE BOSTON COMMERCIAL BULLETIN.

                              BOSTON:
                   LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
                             NEW YORK:
                   LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
                               1871.


     Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
                       BY LEE AND SHEPARD,
    In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

           Cambridge: Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.

          Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
                       No. 10 Spring Lane.




PREFACE.


The following pages are the record of the fruition of years of desire
and anticipation; probably the same that fills the hearts of many who
will read them--a tour in Europe.

The habits of observation, acquired by many years' constant occupation
as a journalist, were found by the author to have become almost second
nature, even when the duties of that profession were thrown aside for
simple gratification and enjoyment; consequently, during a journey of
nearly seven months, which was enjoyed with all the zest of a first
tour, the matter which composes this volume was prepared.

Its original form was in a series of sketches in the columns of the
Boston Commercial Bulletin. In these the writer attempted to give as
vivid and exact an idea of the