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Title: Rollo on the Atlantic

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: August 6, 2007 [EBook #22252]

Language: English

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ROLLO ON THE ATLANTIC.

BY

JACOB ABBOTT.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY TAGGARD AND THOMPSON
M DCCC LXIV.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
JACOB ABBOTT,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON.

[Illustration: THE STATE ROOM.--See p. 77.]

[Illustration]

PREFACE.

In the series of narratives to which this volume pertains, we offer to
the readers of the Rollo Books a continuation of the history of our
little hero, by giving them an account of the adventures which such a
boy may be supposed to meet with in making a tour in Europe. The books
are intended to be books of instruction rather than of mere amusement;
and in perusing them, the reader may feel assured that all the
information which they contain, not only in respect to the countries
visited, and to the customs, usages, and modes of life that are
described, but also in regard to the general character of the incidents
and adventures that the young travellers meet with, is in most strict
accordance with fact. The main design of the narratives is, thus, the
communication of useful knowledge; and every thing which they contain,
except what is strictly personal, in relation to the actors in the
story, may be depended upon as exactly and scrupulously true.

New York, _September, 1853_.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--TAKING PASSAGE 11

II.--THE EMBARKATION