Excerpt from Curious Schools I will tell them what I know, trying to reply to the very questions the boys asked. In the first place, West Point is one of the most beautiful places in the world. It lies in a sheltered bend of the river nearly surrounded by mountains. The rippling water gleaming through the trees, the 'white sails of the boats in the distance, the blue mis settling over the hollow in the mountain called the Crow's Nest, and above all the over-hanging drifts of snowy clouds, make a. Most exquisite picture. 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.