Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life on the Lakes, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Tales and Sketches Collected During a Trip to the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior Breakfast had scarce time to have its perfect work upon us, before we hit upon quite a satisfactory way of passing the day. The Grand Sable is only four miles off; we re solved to visit it on foot, as the day was bright and clear, though rather cold when we were exposed to the full force of the N orth-wester. 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.