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Excerpt from History of the United States
The Khan's army was almost like the sands of the sea for num bers, and so magnificent was the state of its many generals that they sat in chairs of solid Silver. In one province a mountain of tur quoises pierced the clouds; in a valley of another nestled a lake where pearls were so plentiful that had there been freedom to gather them, pearls would have been so common as to be of little worth. There were many mines of silver, many rivers whose beds were Spangled with gold. The beasts and birds were various and wonderful. Spices grew everywhere; and of fruit there were nuts as large as a child's head, filled with a delicious milk, pears that weighed ten pounds, peaches two pounds each. The people of this favored region clothed them selves in cloth of gold, in silks, in lawns, and cambrics of the finest fabric, in furs of ermine and of sable. - Bryant. 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.
