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Title: A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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l from King Leopold.They had a long and interesting conversation, and separatedmutually pleased with each other. On the 8th General and Mrs.Grant returned the call of the King at the palace. In the eveningthe King entertained the General at a banquet, at which a bril-liant company was present. Besides General and Mrs. Grantand their son, the following Americans were present: the familyof Minister Merrill, General Badeau, and General and Mrs.Sandford. During the evening the General and the King- con-versed freely, and the latter found his royal host well versed inAmerican affairs, and very anxious to promote the establishmentof steamship lines between Antwerp and the ports of the UnitedStates. On Monday morning, July 9th, General Grant left Brussels forCologne, travelling in the royal railway carriage, which the Kinghad placed at his disposal. The distance from Brussels toCologne is one hundred and forty-one miles, and the routelies through a charming and deeply interesting region. The
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MARKET-PLACE AT LIEGE, BELGIUM. >7) IOS AROUND THE WORLD. railway runs almost eastward through the level garden-land ofBelgium, and passes several famous places. Every town has itschurch, many of them large and imposing, with their towers andspires reaching far above the surrounding buildings, and seenfrom afar as the railway enters and leaves them. Liege, with itscoal-mines, iron-mills, and overhanging streams of smoke, lookslike a sort of Pittsburgh. But cannon and firearms, cutlery, rails,and metal-work are not the only things to be seen in this fineold city. It has its Cathedral and its historical buildings ; andhere was the house of William de la Marck, of whom Sir WalterScott wrote, whilst the principal scenes of his novel of OuentinDurward are laid in Liege. The city is beautifully situated, thealmost prairie-like appearance of the country west of Liege sud-denly changing to a rolling surface as the city is approached, andgiving it, despite the smoke, an attractive look. Cro

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