Excerpt from Picturesque Burlington: A Handbook of Burlington, Vermont and Lake Champlain Nature has written the history Of the evolution of the earth with a master hand and centuries past counting have slowly piled up the pages of her record. Man, in his brief day, with his feeble candle of science, has groped among the rocks and delved in the drift of the ages in vain efforts to read the story. If at last he has found the key and now correctly reads the wonderful book, it tells him that the western wall of Lake Champlain is the oldest land on earth. Before the Alps or the Andes had broken the surface Of the deep; before the Himalayas had reared their heads to become supreme among the mountains, the rocky peaks of the Adirondacks had pierced the dreary waste Of waters that covered the earth. Tahawas (mount Marcy), with its proud and lofty head splitting the clouds in full View Of Burlington, first rose above the waves at the beginning of the wonderful work which contracted the earth's crust and divided its surface into seas and continents. 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.