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Greatest Wonders of the World

A selection of descriptions of famous, and not so famous, natural beauty spots, as described by various travelers of the age. Travelers include William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Sir Richard F. Burton and Alexandre Dumas. - Summary by LynneT

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The Blue Grotto of Capri by Alexandre Dumas (George Banfield)
Mount Blanc and Chamouni by Percy Bysshe Shelley (BettyB)
The Dead Sea by Pierre Loti (Gillian Hendrie)
Mount Vesuvius by Charles Dickens (Steve C)
The Falls of the Rhine by Victor Hugo (Frederick O'Brien)
In Arctic and Antarctic Seas I. by Lord Dufferin (Piotr Nater)
In Arctic and Antarctic Seas II. by W. G. Burn Murdoch (Piotr Nater)
The Desert of Sahara by Eugène Fromentin (Chuck Lavazzi)
Fingal’s Cave I. by Sir Walter Scott (WesleyDragonSight)
Fingal’s Cave II. by John Keats (Alan Mapstone)
In the Himalayas by G. W. Steevens (BettyB)
Niagara Falls I. by Anthony Trollope (Cynthia Malone)
Niagara Falls II. by Charles Dickens. (Larry Wilson)
Fuji-San by Sir Edwin Arnold (Availle)
The Cedars of Lebanon by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gillian Hendrie)
The Giant’s Causeway by William Makepeace Thackeray (jenno)
The Great Glacier of the Selkirks by Douglas Sladen (Steve C)
Mauna Loa by Lady Brassey (mreaves5)
Trollhätta by Hans Christian Andersen (quartertone)
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado by C. F. Gordon-Cumming (Chuck Lavazzi)
The Rock of Gibraltar by Augustus J. C. Hare (George Banfield)
Thingvalla by Lord Dufferin (April6090)
Land’s End and Logan Rock by John Ayrton Paris (jenno)
Mount Hekla by Sir Richard F. Burton (Chuck Lavazzi)
Victoria Falls by David Livingstone (tshoes76)
The Dragon-Tree of Orotava by Alexander von Humboldt (Chuck Lavazzi)
Mount Shasta by J. W. Boddam-Wheatham (Lynne T)
The Lagoons of Venice by John Ruskin (Belinda McReynolds)
The Cataracts of the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards (jenno)
In the Alps by Théophile Gautier (Yaelin Lee)
The Vale of Kashmir by Andrew Wilson (jenno)
The Lake of Pitch by Charles Kingsley (jenno)
The Lachine Rapids by Douglas Sladen (Katie Johnstone)
Lake Rotorua by H. R. Haweis (BettyB)
The Big Trees of California by C. F. Gordon-Cumming (jenno)
Gersoppa Falls by W. M. Yool (Elizabeth Copnall)
Etna by Alexandre Dumas (Belinda McReynolds)
Pike’s Peak and the Garden of the Gods by Iza Duffus Hardy (BettyB)
The Great Geysir of Iceland by Sir Richard F. Burton (Sai Karthikey Pentapati)
The Rapids of the Danube by William Beattie (tshoes76)
The Mammoth Cave by Bayard Taylor (Piotr Nater)
Stromboli by Alexandre Dumas (mkirkpat)
The High Woods by Charles Kingsley (tshoes76)
The Yo-semité Valley by C. F. Gordon-Cumming (Helen)
The Golden Horn by Alphonse de Lamartine (tshoes76)
The Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling (quartertone)
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