Stories For Summer Days And Winter Nights Illustrated With Coloured Plates And Wood Engravings PDF Download

Excerpt from Stories for Summer Days and Winter Nights: Illustrated With Coloured Plates and Wood Engravings At length this arduous task was accomplished, and the traveller and his steed had reached the highest ground on that part of the fielde. For a minute or two the panting Gustaf rested to recover breath, and Gustaf's master looked around him. The prospect was not very enlivening: stretched before the traveller was a wide tract of wild and uneven ground, destitute of vegetation, and covered in many parts with snow. Over this desolate space wound the road, which was to be traced by tall poles placed at certain points, intended for the guidance of snow-bewildered travellers. On one side, the fielde seemed as though cleft asunder by some sudden con vulsion of nature, forming a narrow valley or chasm, several hundreds of feet deep, along the bottom of which ran swiftly a mountain stream, which, viewed from above, looked like a narrow silver thread. On the other side, at the distance of many miles, was seen the great mountain of Sneehatten, or Snowy-hat, so called because the snow on its summit never dis appears. Around the traveller and his horse not a living thing beside themselves was visible, nor a sound to be heard in that vast solitude, except the hard panting breath of Gustaf, and the cheering words of the driver. 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.