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BYKBRS WILL GO ABROAD.
The European tourist party, under tho
1 leadership of Prof. Lees, the coming sum
mer will go on wheels as always before,
indeed but this time they will not depend
wholly on car wheels and steam boat propel
lors, but after reaching the other sido they
will each manipulate a wheel of his own.
As now planned, tho trip will be confined
mainly to the British Isles, and will be for
the benefit of seven or nine gentlemen, uni
versity students preferably, who ride bicycles
and have 250. Should tho party prefer,
Professor Lees will change the route to a
trip through parts of England and then
through France, Switzerland, Germany and
Holland. The route now laid out will touch
hundreds of places every one would like to
sec, for their fame in song and history.
They will land at Queenstown, Ireland.
Their route through tho green isle will take
them to Cork, to Blarney Castle, the real
thing, with the real kissable geological speci
men in the front yard, the beautiful lakes of
Killarney, with the unequalled scenery of
the whole lake region; then northeast to
Dublin. From Dubln they will go north to
Londonderry and the Giant's Causeway.
They will leave Ireland at Belfast, landing
at Androssan in Scotland. Then they will go
south to Ayr and Burn's country, where they
will chase Tarn O'Shanter to a finish under
the advantages of their modern mode of lo
comotion. They will then turn northward,
visiting Glasgow, Dumbarton, with its old
castle, Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond,
Loch Katrine, where, of course, they will
find the Lady of tho Lake. Sterling, the
Fourth Bridge, Leith, Edinburgh will all
bo in the line of travel. The party will en
joy a visit to Melrose Abbey, the oldest ruin
in Scotland and to Abbotsford, Scott's homo.
They will go south through Scott's country
to the Cheviot hills, thence leaving bonny
Scotland for merry England.
They will then probably, in order to bo
original, "carry coal to Newcastle ;' At
least this famous coal region is on their pro
gram. At Durham they will visit tho old
cathedral, founded in 1098, where tho
bones of St. Cnthbort rest, and at York
another very old cathedral commands atten
tion The manufacturing towns of Leeds
'iiYsd Manchester will next bo passed on tho
way to Liverpool, our tourists thus reaching
by the back door the famous fivo mile line of
docks which many Americans remember
as the first definite sight of England. They
will next see Chester and the river Dee, and
those old walls of Cassar's which surround
the town. Hero thov will be within a ten
mile ride of Hawarden and the "Grand Old
Man.'" Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Leam
ington, one of tho most beautiful towns in
England; Kenilworth, with its famous ivy
clad ruins, and its associations will be visited.
Thence the party will voluntarily send them
selves spinning over the road to Coventry,
not to stay long however.
Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon let it bo un
adjectived ! and Cambridge will bo viBited
on the way to "London town,1 with its
tower, and its old bridge, its visions of de
light, its reminders of old glory and of old
barbarism, its splendid tokens of new civili
zation. But London, too, should be loft,
unadjectived; tho tourists will see it all.
They will doubtless go to Windsor to gratify
the American awe of royalty by a visit to
Windsor castle and a glimpse at the queen
and a full round gaze at the duplicate world's
fair guards who pace around tho castle.
They will then go to Greenwich, "where
longitude is made," and to Woolwich, tho lo
cation of the largest arsenal in Britain. Thon
"To Canterbury they wende
The holy blissful martir for to seko,"
as true knights after long pilgrimages must
do. This may not bo tho end of their sight
seeing, and, as stated in the beginning, tho
trip will. possibly be greatly changed, but as
it is it presents an enticing prospect.