Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Merwin's Conn. River Business Directory for 1867-8: Containing a Classified List, Alphabetically Arranged, of Business Firms, Manufacturing Establishments, Joint Stock Companies, Etc
The rank that New England Occupies in the Union, the influ ence her institutions have, and are exerting upon the civilization of the present century, are duly appreciated by all intelligent men. Now if any one will scan the map Of New England, and trace the course of the Connecticut from its source to its mouth, care fully Considering its' ramifications - the small tributaries that flow into it - the amount of water-power they furnish, and the business they thus sustain, he will see that the valley of the Con necticut, the main artery of New England trade and enterprise, occupies no very insignificant place in the scale of forces that help to make New England what it is. A brief history of the settlement and the progress of this valley, cannot fail to make an interesting and appropriate introduction to this volume. The Aborigines who inhabited this valley, hunted in the forests that skirted its banks, and caught fish out of its prolific waters, called it the Quonchtacut. It was not known to any civilized people until some years after the English and Dutch, the original set tlers of the country, had established themselves at Plymouth and New Netherlands. 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.
