A Tour of Four Great Rivers: The Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna and Delaware in 1769 Being the Journal of Richard Smith or Burlington, New Jersey, Edited, With a Short History of the Pioneer Settlements (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Tour of Four Great Rivers: The Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna and Delaware in 1769 Being the Journal of Richard Smith or Burlington, New Jersey, Edited, With a Short History of the Pioneer SettlementsMr. Smith saw these valleys, When the Indians still traversed the trails that had been worn deep by the feet of their forefathers, and When the bark canoe was still an indispensable adjunct of frontier trade. His journal is not alone valuable because of the con ditions in Which it was written, but also for the dis crimination and precision With Which its author ob served real things and recorded What was vital and interesting in them. In many ways it is an excep tional document.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.