It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.

Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.

On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean

Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.