Excerpt from Historic Catskill: A Curve on the Rip Van Winkle Trail A week and more they traveled this inland waterway before they saw the Fort. There were no telephones or telegraphs to herald their coming to the brother Cornelius who had preceded them to the new country, but no doubt they were greeted joyfully, for it was a great event to welcome relatives, friends or even strangers and hear news from the home land. 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.