Excerpt from The Child of the Island GlenThe child OF the island glen incidentally brings to view the shrewdness of those men who laid the foundations of our commerce, their dexterity in suiting means to ends, the indomitable energy with which they grappled to opportunities ¿ung ia their path by the advent of foreign wars and the irregularities of trade, while perils and obstacles that would have crushed persons of laxer fibre, only roused them to greater effort.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.