Excerpt from Sketches of the North River Among the many noble streams that flow through our widely extended country, there are none more celebrated for rich and varied scenery, than the North or Hudson River, the affluence of its waters, the picturesque, the wild, the savage features of its shores, its dark forests, and beet ling clifl's and green meadows, the hundred towns upon its banks, the thousand sails upon its bosom, and the historic associations that twine around its localities, render a voyage upon it one of absorbin interest. 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.