Excerpt from Proceedings in the Celebration at Brattleboro, Vermont, October 21, 1892: Of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. 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.