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sion within us of the deluge of travel to come. To 

 the common thinking of that time, motor touring 

 seemed too dangerous and expensive a sport ever to 

 affect the destiny of places so distant and difficult 

 of access. Even the railroads feared far more the 

 competition of steamships than of automobiles, and 

 advertised National Parks against Europe hoping 

 to keep transatlantic travellers at home. 



Ah! There I see it now, emerging from that 

 heavy bank of cloud in the north. What an infernal 

 noise from so small an insect! Speeding like a 

 dragon fly ! No doubt the New York mail ! 



I wonder what, twelve years from now, the 

 airplane will have done to the lands I have here de- 

 scribed ! 



