A thousand might be taken, every one as unlike the other in distinctive form and feature, as every one of the same number of men would be to the other.
The diversification of names, being more difficult, is still more remarkable.

Although the spread eagle figures largely as the patron genius of American hotels, still nine-tenths of them bear the names of states, counties, towns, or national or local celebrities.

But here natural history comes out strong and wide.

The heraldry of sovereigns, aristocracy, gentry, commercial and industrial interests, puts up its various _arms_ upon hundreds of inns in town and country.

All occupations and recreations are well represented.
Thus no country in the world approaches England in the wide scope and play of hotel nomenclature.