"It Has Delighted Me To Follow You, Step By Step By The Side Of The Ancient And Picturesque Carts That Cross The Vast Plains Which Stretch Between The Parana River And The Base Of The Andes.

As I have written about the same region, your book of travels becomes a valuable reminder of those scenes;

And I shall have to consult your work in the future when I again write about those countries." - "Nathaniel H. Bishop, a mere lad of seventeen; who, prompted by a love of nature, starts off from his New England home, reaches the La Plata River and coolly walks to Valparaiso, across Pampa and Cordillera, a distance of more than a thousand miles! It is not the mere fact of pedestrianism that will gain for Master Nathaniel Bishop a high place among travellers; nor yet the fact of its having been done in the face of dangers and difficulties, - but that, throughout the walk, he has gone with his eyes open, and gives us a book, written at seventeen, that will make him renowned at seventy. It is teeming with information, both on social and natural subjects, end will take rank among books of scientific travel - the only ones worth inquiring for. One chapter from the book of an educated traveller (we don't mean the education of Oxford and Cambridge) is worth volumes of the stuff usually forming the staple of books of travels. And in this unpretending book of the Yankee boy - for its preface is signally of this sort - we have scores of such chapters.

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