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Excerpt from The Mohawk Valley and Lake Ontario The author and the publishers of the Great Lakes Series feel that it is proper for them to set forth briefly the principles which have guided them in preparing these supplementary readers. Though we realize that our work needs to be inter esting, we do not wish it to be merely entertaining. These readers are school books and are not intended as a recrea tion for idle hours. Therefore we have been careful not to give too much space to stories of battles and skirmishes or to picturesque Indian legends. Because the reading lesson is too Often but slightly related to the rest of the curriculum, we have tried to supplement the work in other studies by laying stress upon the more Obvious relations between geography, history and com merce. Exploration and trade in America have both romantic and practical aspects, and one or the other Of these is sure to appeal to wideawake children. The scenes visited in these books Offer abundant material of both kinds - the chief difficulty has been to select. 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.