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THE) MAIN STREET OF YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA, WHERE CORNVVALEIS SURRENDERED TO 



WASHINGTON IN I781, NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE YORK RIVER, 



33 MIEES FROM NORFOLK 



The house on the left was the first custom-house in America. The ox-cart is still more 

 in evidence than the automobile. Here stands the house of General Nelson, the Virginia 

 patriot, who offered twenty guineas to the first cannoneer who would hit his house, saying 

 that it meant nothing to him while it harbored the enemy of his country — Cornwallis. And 

 a cannon-ball embedded in the chimney tells a story of good gunnery. 



versities which honor the names of their 

 founders, Elihu Yale and John Harvard ? 

 Surely Oxford and Cambridge have ren- 

 dered no more conspicuous service to Eu- 

 rope than Harvard and Yale to America ! 

 And there are many other college com- 

 munities whose halls are fragrant with 

 traditions more inspiring to Americans 

 than any of the memories associated with 

 the university buildings which tourists 

 visit in Europe — William and Mary, 

 where Jefferson and Monroe were college 

 boys ; the University of Virginia, found- 

 ed by Jefferson ; Princeton, the university 

 which graduated Madison and where 

 Joseph Henry taught. 



THE EMPIRE STATE 



From its metropolis in the southeast to 

 Niagara on the west, from Plattsburg on 

 historic Lake Champlain to picturesque 



Lake Chautauqua, the Empire State is 

 full of lure for the traveler. New York 

 City is the most cosmopolitan community 

 of the earth. There are more Jews in it 

 than in Jerusalem, more Italians than in 

 Messina, more Germans than in Bremen, 

 and more Slavs than in Kishinef. 



Some one has said that New York is a 

 city that is all things to all men ; that the 

 artist translates it in terms of beauty, the 

 practical man in terms of efficiency. He 

 adds that everywhere it is spectacular, 

 the big setting of a big drama, a place of 

 endless experiment and achievement, the 

 city of skyscrapers, whose elevators con- 

 vey one with the speed of an eagle to 

 dizzy summits, from which those who 

 walk the narrow street below seem like 

 so many ants following their daily toil. 



To the Hudson River many a world 

 traveler has paid tribute. George Wil- 



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