Author : Martha Krug Genthe
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ISBN 13 : 9781332208814
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)
Book Synopsis Valley Towns of Connecticut (Classic Reprint) by : Martha Krug Genthe
Download or read book Valley Towns of Connecticut (Classic Reprint) written by Martha Krug Genthe and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Valley Towns of Connecticut The surface of Connecticut may be said to repeat, to a certain degree, the surface features of the country at large on a smaller scale: a wide valley with the main river in the centre, and mountain ranges in the east and west. But unlike its larger counterpart, the Constitution State offers the strange case of a river and valley not continuing partnership to the end; below Middletown, the Connecticut Valley continues southwest towards New Haven, while the Connecticut River intersects the crystalline upland, forming a narrow gorge, through which it winds its solitary way southeast toward Old Saybrook. Thus it happens that the largest river of New England has been of almost no importance for the development of the country in that part of its course in which other rivers have been most important for the same - namely, in its lower course. It is, perhaps, the only river of its size which has not at its mouth a seaport proportionate in commercial importance to that of the country which it drains. If Hartford may be called the St. Louis of the Connecticut River, it is in vain that we look for its New Orleans. The functions of that port are divided between New Haven, which controls the entrance to the Valley but has no river, and Saybrook, which controls the mouth of the River but has no valley. This anomaly is one of the principal causes why, in Connecticut, the settlement of the country never proceeded to any extent upstream from the mouth of the river. 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.
