Excerpt from Stories of Illinois We are sure that our grand old Lake Michigan was once very much higher than it is now. We are sure that once Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan - all three - poured their waters down through our own Illinois River to the Mississippi, then through the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. It does seem almost unbelievable But wait! Have you ever noticed those long, long bluffs on either side of the Illinois River? They are a great' distance from the present banks of the river, to be sure a whole mile apart we are told. And, really, now that you come to look at them, they do look for all the world as if they were water worn, do they not? See the long horizontal lines the stained rock, the worn ridges. 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.