If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age? (Robert Gould Shaw)

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

Robert Gould Shaw

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