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Excerpt from The Decline and Fall of Keewatin: Or the Free-Trade Redskins; A Satire
IT is well known to Canadians that the pre sent Dominion Government have discovered a Province named Keewatin, in our North West Territories, although there may be some doubt as to its being as the Bill says bounded on the west by Ontario and on the east by Manitoba. On the other hand it is not known to the Public that the exploring party sent up to settle' its boundaries found in the newly revealed country evident traces of a former civilization, to wit - the rem nants of a stone wall along its frontier, and about the centre of the deserted plain a curiously shaped mound of fossilized wood and that they picked up from the ground near by, the original ms. Of the extraordinary narrative hereto appended, written on oak tanned buffalo skin, and to' all ap pearance a thousand years old. At the least. The editor hopes that the pains he has taken to trans late and publish this document, will be properly appreciated as to its authenticity, it must be taken for what it is worth. 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.
