The Smiting of the Rock: A Tale of Oregon
George Palmer Putnam
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(Forgotten Books, Jan. 22, 2018)
Excerpt from The Smiting of the Rock: A Tale of OregonThe refreshing Spirit Of this pleasurable outlook infused the traveler, filling him with carefree con tent. Just then, if Chance had sought to make capital of his optimistic good nature he might have been bent to almost any purpose. But Chance left him SO undisturbedly drinking in the visual magnificence Of the Columbia country that shortly he was satiated with the very glory Of it, and sought something less overwhelming to look upon.From his pocket he extracted a much-handled map, and spreading it out upon his knees, for the twentieth time delved into its allurements.It was a normal folder, with the United States ironed out encouragingly and SO fashioned that the red-printed route Of the railroad whose name it bore was by all Odds the straightest and Shortest between the two oceans. Railroad map makers, he mused, long since discarded the copybook axiom that a straight line is the Shortest dis tance between two points, substituting there for the ukase that their own roads must always appear as the shortest, whatever their actual in directions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.