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... houses , may be perceived in the dis- tance . On the left , the luxuriant foliage and the dark green vegetation remind the English traveller of the richest and most charming rising grounds in Kent . The water is studded with steamers ...
... houses , may be perceived in the dis- tance . On the left , the luxuriant foliage and the dark green vegetation remind the English traveller of the richest and most charming rising grounds in Kent . The water is studded with steamers ...
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... House is the traveller's first task . This office is as dingy and uncomfortable a place as any one of the sort to be met with elsewhere . Thinking that the rules which were in force here resembled those of the Custom Houses of the Old ...
... House is the traveller's first task . This office is as dingy and uncomfortable a place as any one of the sort to be met with elsewhere . Thinking that the rules which were in force here resembled those of the Custom Houses of the Old ...
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... House officers . I was told that they were the most exacting , over- bearing , and detestable of any upon earth . My own experience did not bear out this opinion . They seemed to be overworked . So many articles being liable to duty ...
... House officers . I was told that they were the most exacting , over- bearing , and detestable of any upon earth . My own experience did not bear out this opinion . They seemed to be overworked . So many articles being liable to duty ...
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... which his demeanour had excited . To his surprise and annoyance , he was ordered to step into a room , where he was subjected to a minute personal search . The natural conclusion is that an American Custom House has 16 WESTWARD BY RAIL .
... which his demeanour had excited . To his surprise and annoyance , he was ordered to step into a room , where he was subjected to a minute personal search . The natural conclusion is that an American Custom House has 16 WESTWARD BY RAIL .
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... House has its good and its bad side ; that the offi- cers are neither wholly immaculate nor uniformly unbearable ; that the warning against being too precipitate ought to be carefully observed there ; that patience and courtesy go a ...
... House has its good and its bad side ; that the offi- cers are neither wholly immaculate nor uniformly unbearable ; that the warning against being too precipitate ought to be carefully observed there ; that patience and courtesy go a ...
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