Columbus Getting Too Much Credit
The fact that America is a very big country never strikes one so forcibly as when he has travelled a couple of thousand miles due west and still finds the prairie stretching out before him. A young sprig of British nobility was visiting America last summer, accompanied by the inevitable "Jeems." They saw the seaboard cities, tarried for a time in Pittsburg, in Chicago, in St. Louis, and in Kansas City, and then struck out into the great West. Somewhere near the edge of Colorado the train was delayed at a f-mall Btation, and the passengers gob out to stretch their legs, among them his lordship and "Jeoms," who seemed in a brown study. "What is it?" asked his master. " I was just thinkin', me lud," said Jeems, " that Columbus didn't do such a mighty big thing when 'c discovered this 'ere country, after hall's said and done. 'Ow could 'c help it ?" It certainly is something of "an obstacle in the pathway of navigation. 1 t
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 3
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172Columbus Getting Too Much Credit Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 3
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