Excerpt from First Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, 1906Out of monuments. Names. Wordes. Proverbes, traditions. Private recordes. Fragments of stories, passages of bockes. And the like. We doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. Bacon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.