Boys of the Old Sea Bed: Tales of Nature and Adventure

Boys of the Old Sea Bed: Tales of Nature and Adventure

To the memory of my brother Robert, one of the Boys of the Old Sea Bed, who, though passing out into the Great Beyond while yet young, wrote his name high up among those to whom the world accords fame, this little volume of boyhood tales is affectionately dedicated. These tales are at last put upon paper, after having served the demands of a generation of little folknow grown tallfor stories of when papa was a boy. All the tales are founded upon facts, and many are incidents and experiences reproduced as faithfully as memory paints the pictures. The red men are gone; the great forest is no more; railroads and cities and farms occupy the bottom of the Old Sea Bed. But the same courage and hardihood and clean living which marked the pioneers of near a half century ago is still the hope of America. Men of science who have made a study of the earths surface, say that Lake Erie, from which flows Niagara river northward into Lake Ontario, will, in a certain, or uncertain, number of years, go dry, and what is now a wide though shallow sheet of water become a plain, through which may meander a slowly-flowing river. The reason for this prediction is that Niagara Falls, which have cut their way back from Lewiston through a gorge some seven miles, and are still eating their way through the limestone and the softer underlying shale at the rate of more than two feet a year, will finally accomplish their journey, and the great lake be reached and drained. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 61211
Author: McConnell, Charles Allen
Release Date: Jan 21, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English