Excerpt from The Sneads of Fluvanna When one crosses the Atlantic going East, he turns his back on the new and faces the old. It is the old palaces, old paintings, old cathedrals, old abbeys, old museums, filled with rare old curios, that one goes in search of. And what is it that gives such fascination to the old? There is surely nothing in mere crumbling stones to enchant one. It is the history embodied in it, the tale of a past civilization with its colossal characters, that swayed the minds of men and made great achievements possible. How we like to look upon some of these memorials, and people them with our own ancestors who passed, as history records, through scenes of blood to perpetuate the nation's honor! 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.