Memorials of a Half-Century [in Michigan] ... With illustrations

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VIEW ON DETROIT RIVER FROM OLD KNAGGS HOUSE, WIND-MILL TOINT, SrRINGWELLS, 1837. MEMORIALS OF A HALF-CENTURY BY BELA HUBBARD AL " I have been at a great feast, and stolen the scraps." Love's Labor Lost. — Shaks. "... various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulg'd." The Task. — Cowpek WITH ILLUSTRATIONS NEW VORK & LONDON G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS arftt KnicfcerocclUi" COPYRIGHT BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1887 Press of G. P. Putnam's Sons New York " The notes of a single observer, even in a limited district, describing accurately its features, civil, natural and social, are of more interest, and often of more value, than the grander view and broader generalizations of history. " In a country whose character and circumstances are constantly changing, the little facts and incidents, which are the life of history, soon pass from the minds even of the present generation.'.' — 'Anon.