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Excerpt from Zigzag Journeys in the Great Northwest: Or, a Trip to the American Switzerland
His twelfth volume of the Zigzag books was written after a journey over the Canadian Pacific Railroad to Van couver, the cities of the Puget Sound, and Columbia River. Its aim is to give in'a picturesque way a view of the scenery, industrial opportunities, and romances of the great Northwest. When the writer first began these books of the stories and legends of places and of travel with interpolated tales, with a View of helping home and school studies, he had no thought that the demand for them would continue beyond a few volumes. But parents and teachers have found them helpful in developing the intelligence of the young, and in creating a taste for better reading; so the series has been continued in compliance with the public wish and patronage. 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.
