Excerpt from The Hudson River: By Daylight Every other route has mountains, from to feet, to climb. Here is a natural highway, which Clinton completed by overcoming a few feet of grade, to the level of Lake Erie above Niagara. The importance of this water way to New York and the entire country can hardly be estimated. 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.