Excerpt from Southwest Virginia and Shenandoah Valley: An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Rapid Growth and Wonderful Development of Southwest Virginia and Shenandoah Valley, With a History of the Norwolk and Western and Shenandoah Valley Railroads, and Sketches of the Principal Cities and TownsThe author here'desires to express his earnest thanks to the people 0 these sections who, by attention, courtesy, and kindness, contributed SI materially to the lightening of his labors and his search after knowledge ii the way of material and data. He is fully. Aware of the arduous undertaking now before him, and enters upon the same' with many misgivings as to hi ability to perform it well, trusting more to the indulgence of the kind reade rather than to any power of his in the execution of so great a task.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.