Photograph by Gilbert H. Grosvenoi 

 ONE OF THE COUNTLESS AMAZING SIGHTS TO BE SEEN ON THE WHARVES OE OUR 

 GREAT LAKES : FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS' WORTH OF COPPER 

 INGOTS AWAITING SHIPMENT AT HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN 



Industrially as well as scenically the United States affords fields of interest to the tourist 

 surpassed by no other part of the world. We produce three-fifths of the world's copper, 

 two-fifths of its iron and coal, one-third of its silver, lead, and zinc, and one-fifth of its gold. 



land or Pennsylvania, you see a landscape 

 that painters love — undulating hills, roll- 

 ing fields, Watered with winding streams 

 and ornamented by groves of oak and 

 hickory, picturesque farm-houses, and 

 huge barns packed to the rafters with 

 Nature's gifts, for these counties possess 

 some of the best land and best farmers 

 of America. 



Fifty-four thousand of as brave men 

 as ever marched to martial music min- 

 gled their blood at Gettysburg in 1863. 

 The government of the United States 

 has spared no effort to preserve to the 

 future the memories of those who bore 

 the brunt of the bitter struggle, and to 

 mark alike the position of the Blue and 

 the Gray of those sanguinary days. It is 

 the best marked and best cared-for bat- 



tlefield in the world. With its magnifi- 

 cent picture of pastoral beauty, its splen- 

 did roadways, and its eloquent monu- 

 ments, Gettysburg is a sight to thrill the 

 heart of every American. 



Xo where can we find sights and mem- 

 ories more precious to our hearts than 

 those which abound in Washington, the 

 most stately capital city in the world. 

 The glories of the nation's capital have, 

 however, been so well described in the 

 pages of this Magazine by ex-President 

 Taft and Viscount Bryce that they need 

 not be referred to here. 



Xot far from Washington is Harpers 

 Ferry, where the Potomac breaks through 

 the mountains on its way to the sea, and 

 the scene of John Brown's raid ; here 

 came Stonewall Jackson to capture the 



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