Excerpt from The Golden Rock The odd thing about him was that several days passed, and we were nearing our destina tion, before he referred in any way to his most striking experience. I remarked once that those people who had crossed the continent be: fore the day of railways must be impressed by the striking contrast. 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.