Travelling Part 2

Travelling Part 2

dictation exercise

notebook

Arthur P. Stone

Charles Dickens

deciphered shorthand

travel

The second part of a meditation on the benefits of travel, written in shorthand

Stone, Arthur P.

Dickens, Charles

Free Library of Philadelphia [cdc5890009_13]

1859-1860

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English

Brachygraphy shorthand

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Working transcription: mountain is the action of prodigious forces pent up in the recesses of the earth and heaving and working there from the dawn of creation to the present hour that the importance and beauty and grandeur of what he sees impress him adequately. The falls of Niagara are but so many thousand million gallons of water but the consideration that a great river is throwing itself over a certain rock and that in the course of ages it must weather/wear the rock away and change the whole face of the country thereabouts is quite another thing. We must all put something of ourselves into everything we see and if we do not so train ourselves so that we have something to put some bank to draw upon some capital to invest nothing can have the charms for us that it is meant/wont to have. Consequently it is always possible for civilised men to conceive how little interesting nature is to the savage and how very small an appreciation he has of her wonders and beauties distanced from his wants and appetites. But this is in fact one of the main reasons for his being the monotonous, indolent stupid brute he always is for any purpose other than his own immediate personal wants. There is yet