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Excerpt from Unvisited Places of Old Europe
And next day the feeling was conclusively con firmed, for the Governor called upon me and said, with a dignity which carried his full impression of the distinction of the fact: You are the first American to enter the limits Of Liechtenstein! We know of America, and letters come from Amer ica, for to your land some few of our people have gone, but never before has any one from America entered this principality.
Yet it is an autonomous, independent principal ity, nooked among mountains, between Switzer land and Austria. It gave me a new idea of the possibilities that lie before the traveler who wishes to find the unknown or little known, yet would like to find it in connection with the usual tourist journeyings, but has neither time nor money and perhaps not even the inclination to travel far from the usual paths. And the very fact that an nu visited place is near the beaten track gives a tang and a zest.
In Liechtenstein there came a keener pleasure, a finer savor of discovery, in the knowledge that the Old white castle, perched precipitously upon its cliff of white rock, is every year seen from car windows by hundreds of Americans going past Liechtenstein on the other side of the valley.
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