“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or Nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his round. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”

— Mark Twain , book Following the Equator

Ch. LVII http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2895/2895-h/p6.htm
Following the Equator (1897)

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