Excerpt from Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming's Expedition Through Canada in 1872, Being a Diary Kept During a Journey From the Atlantic to the Pacific, With the Expedition of the Engineer-in-Chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial Railways We know that it has many literary mistakes. You will attribute them all to the circumstances under which it was written, and to the fact that the writer, living a thousand miles away from the printer, had no sufficient opportunities to correct the proofs. The illustrations are mainly from photographs and on this account may be considered of special interest. 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.