"The Coming Race", Chapter I, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Charles II: King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.

Places names and dates are blanked out in the text. I really, super hate it when authors do that. Rather than reword things around it, or make up places, I inserted some actual real words that fit and then bleeped it out in edit. But I can not even remotely begin to express to magnitude of my ire at authors doing that!!

The picture used is inside the Carlsbad Caverns.

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