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Excerpt from Rivers and Their Mysteries
Rivers are of interest to nearly everyone. They are fascinating, beautiful, majestic and mysterious features of the landscape and peo ple in all walks of life, under all sorts Of con dirions and from many points of View obtain pleasure or profit from them. The traveler, speeding over the water on a great palatial steamer; the canoeist, paddling silently in the shade of the overhanging trees on a quiet backwater; the bathers, disporting themselves in the deep, cool pools; the angler, fishing from the bank, all love the river. And where, in all the world, is a more perfect and enjoy able spot for a picnic or a summer's holiday than the grassy banks, the grateful Shade, the flower-spangled fields and the softly lapping waters Of a riverside? In winter, when the river's surface is ice bound, when the banks are white with snow and the naked branches of the trees bend under their load of sleet. 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.
