Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Review of Illinois, Vol. 1: The Southern Section, "Egypt"; Her Principal Towns and Their Progressive Men The Carboniferous Age Opened with the deposi tion of widely extended marine formations. The Winter temperature near the poles was 66 degrees, a stifling atmosphere rested over the entire part of the globe, known today as North America, the Mc Kenzie river now filled with icebergs, then nowed through verdant banks to a coral sea, having the same temperature as the Gulf of Mexico at the present day. 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.