The Wonderful Wheel Of Fortune Classic Reprint

Author : Martha Gray
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484606301
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Wheel (Classic Reprint) written by Martha Gray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fortune's Wheel Little green islands rise out of the water and lift their heads toward the blue sky, as though trying to ask the Great World to stop for a while and tell them the mystery of the onward rushing waters, and Why they are there, hundreds and hundreds of them. But the Great World passes on, drinking in the loveliness of the beautiful islands, and never once stopping, to whisper, to them, that ages and ages ago, oh, ever so many that no one knows how long it was, the continent of North America was not a bit as it is now, and the waters rested in other places or rushed and babbled over other river beds. Then there came a change; and nature wore such a strange garb her Old friends would never have known her. Many other changes came; but we do not know how or when, the change was so mysterious, and the time so long ago. Geology teaches many things, but the mystery of our world is locked so securely in the bosom of old mother nature, that we shall never know it all. If you look on the map you will find that the Great Lakes form a terrace, and that that grand cataract, Niagara Falls, is between two of them, and that the St. Lawrence river is the outlet of them all. Well, away back ages and ages ago the water grew tired of being imprisoned on the high terrace and longed to return to the ocean, the home of all the waters; and it broke away from all restraint and rushed over the land anywhere and everywhere, in its mad race onward, digging out a channel for itself and where the rocks were too hard to be much affected by the onward rushing waters they were left; and the river dug deep its channel right by their side; and in time the rocks were covered with soil and verdure, and there were so many, they were called The Thousand Islands. I wish I could describe them; but who was ever able to describe the most beautiful things in nature? No one, so I will not try to describe them; but will only tell a few things about those beautiful, wonderful islands lying like emeralds and moss agates on the bosom of the mighty river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.