Excerpt from The Raritan Notes on a River and a Family For much of its course the River flows through a low slightly-undulating country. Off in the northwest there is a range of blue hills where the stream takes its head. It comes to life, runs its course, and passes out to the sea before a hundred miles are counted. No stately reach of thousands as the Mississippi; no lake like breadth of surface as the Saguenay or the lower Danube. The great streams go down to the ocean through broad basins and their shining silver faces may. 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.