# America To-day, Observations and Reflections Author: Archer, William, 1856-1924 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7997 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=America+To-day%2C+Observations+and+Reflections+Archer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The Atlantic Ocean is geographically a misnomer, socially and politically a dwindling superstition. That is the chief lesson one learns--and one has barely time to take it in--between Queenstown and Sandy Hook. Ocean forsooth! this little belt of blue water that we cross before we know where we are, at a single hop-skip-and-jump! From north to south, perhaps, it may still count as an ocean; from east to west we have narrowed it into a strait. Why, even for the seasick (and on this point I speak with melancholy authority) the Atlantic has not half the terrors of the Straits of Dover; comfort at sea being a question, not of the size of the waves, but of the proportion between the size of th... ## Chapters - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/america-to-day-observations-and-reflections-7997/chapters/6/index.md)