The Girdle of the Great: A Story of the New South

Excerpt from The Girdle of the Great: A Story of the New SouthIn the heart of a great Southern plantation, on a hill overlooking the golden waters of the Pee Dee, guarded by gigantic oaks, and begirt with rose-bushes and honey-suckles, stood some years ago a stately white-and-green house. Its broad verandas, massive fluted columns and airy rooms all marked it an ante-bellum mansion.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.