Adams's Descriptive Guide: To the Watering Places of England, and Companion to the Coast (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Adams's Descriptive Guide: To the Watering Places of England, and Companion to the Coast

Every book should strive at pleasing two individuals the publisher and the purchaser. Without each is equally satisfied, the work cannot be considered as one that has attained the desired object of its production. The ensuing pages have been written with the express View Of furthering the interests of both. Of late years the changes wrought by road and rail, the local innovations and alterations induced by the march of modern improvement, the creation by fashion of new watering-places, and the consequent desertion of many of the old, are all so many reasons that render former Guide Books quite obsolete, and the want of a new one so universally felt. The antiquated manuals that discourse eloquently of ancient streets long since demolished, and which are provokingly silent concerning the elegant structures and buildings which have risen along the coast during the last ten years, have often proved before now bewildering sources of perplexity to the stranger and a fund of innocent amusement to the inhabitants, who have marked with pride the increasing accommodation furnished by their native town. From the extended facilities recently afforded to travellers, and the moderate outlay for which a summer excursion to any.

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