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mdp.39015027523649	Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah.	Westward to the Far East : a guide to the principal cities of China and Japan with a note on Korea by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore	1900		.txt	text/plain	5726	633	85	Time and distance have been almost annihilated by modern machinery, and the trip from New York to Yokohama takes no longer now than did the trip from New York to Liverpool but a few years ago. Ten days after leaving Yokohama the Empress of Japan had arrived at Vancouver, and in less than fifteen days from leaving Japanese shores weeks in the cities and famous places of Japan, and return again to For the first day the train races through a halfcovered glacier garden, and the marks of the great ice sheet that ground the Dai Butsu and Chion-in temples before reaching the hotel whose proprietors were formerly guides and knowing the one, a half-mile lane of china shops leading to the Kiomidzu temple, The railway stops outside the city walls, and there is a three-mile ride in cart or sedan, or on donkey, to the hotel on Legation Street, crossing the Chinese City and	./cache/mdp.39015027523649.pdf	./txt/mdp.39015027523649.txt