Excerpt from The Glacier's Gift: With Fourteen Illustrations It is also my desire to give to the public a knowledge of a few of the really great men and women who claimed this isolated spot as their home, some of whom went far beyond the confines of their birthplace and made themselves a power for good in the great and busy world. I have sought to give credit to whom credit is due in the matter of quotations and am guiltless of intention to plagiarize, although someone has said that all English writers are plagiarists of necessity, simply because there is but one correct manner of expression; but laying all argu ments aside, my chief desire is that the book may prove readable and entertaining, and above all, authentic in so far as possible. 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.