Beneath the Records

"History, always a palimpsest, is never more so than in its annals of our region, where, beneath the records of our race, are dimly seen those of alien early folk, whose story in its last days is involved with that of the white man, and in its more ancient periods recedes through imperfect records, through legend and myth, until it grows illegible on the parchment of time, lost in the realm of the unknowable."

Frank H. Severance, An Old Frontier of France 2 vols. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1917), Vol. 1, p. 21.