Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Illustration: A CINGHALESE GENTLEMAN.] [Illustration: VIEW FROM THE BULLER, NEW ZEALAND.] GREATER BRITAIN. _A RECORD OF TRAVEL_ IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES DURING 1866-7. BY CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE. _TWO VOLUMES IN ONE._ WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO. 1869. TO MY FATHER I Dedicate THIS BOOK. C. W. D. PREFACE. IN 1866 and 1867, I followed England round the world: everywhere I was in English-speaking, or in English-governed lands. If I remarked that climate, soil, manners of life, that mixture with other peoples had modified the blood, I saw, too, that in essentials the race was always one. The idea which in all the length of my travels has been at once my fellow and my guide--a key wherewith to unlock the hidden things of strange new lands--is a conception, however imperfect, of the grandeur of our race, already girding the earth, which it is destined, perhaps, eventually to overspread. In America, the peoples of the world are being fused together, but they are run into an English mould: Alfred‘s laws and Chaucer‘s tongue are theirs whether they would or no. There are men who say that Britain in her age will claim the glory of having planted greater Englands across the seas. They fail to perceive that she has done more than found plantations of her own--that she has imposed her institutions upon the offshoots of Germany, of Ireland, of Scandinavia, and of Spain. Through America, England is speaking to the world. Sketches of Saxondom may be of interest even upon humbler grounds: the development of the England of Elizabeth is to be found, not in the Britain of Victoria, but in half the habitable globe. If two small islands are by courtesy styled “Great,” America, Australia, India, must form a Greater Britain. C. W. D. 76 SLOANE STREET, S. W. 1_st November_, 1868. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. PART I. CHAPTER PAGE I. VIRGINIA 3 II. THE NEGRO 16 III. THE SOUTH 27 IV. THE EMPIRE STATE 33 V. CAMBRIDGE COMMENCEMENT 43 VI. CANADA 55 VII. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 69 VIII. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD 78 IX. OMPHALISM 86 X. LETTER FROM DENVER 91 XI. RED INDIA 102 XII. COLORADO 110 XIII. ROCKY MOUNTAINS 115 XIV. BRIGHAM YOUNG 122 XV. MORMONDOM 127 XVI. WESTERN EDITORS 131 XVII. UTAH 144 XVIII. NAMELESS ALPS 152 XIX. VIRGINIA CITY 166