A Field Guide To The Connecticut River

Author : Edwin Monroe Bacon
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230360720
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut; Three Hundred and Fifty Miles from Mountain to Sea written by Edwin Monroe Bacon and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... XXIX Hartford to the Sea Down the River by Steamboat -- Old Dutch Point -- Wetherefield back from the Meadows -- The Glaatonburys--Rocky Hill and Cromwell--Portland and Middletown at the Great Bend--The College City -- Wealeyan University and Berkeley Divinity School -- John Fiske in Middletown -- The Straits -- The Chatham Hills -- Historic Mines -- "The Governor's Gold Ring"--The Lymes and the Haddams -- The Field Family -- Brainard the Missionary to the Indians -- Essex -- At the River's Mouth. THE steamboats of the " Hartford Line," for lower-river landings and by the Sound to New York, sail from the site of the ancient Landing in Hartford, at the foot of State Street. On the way to the pier one will observe a few old warehouses suggestive of the West India trade of ships that have passed. But he must imagine the old wharves lined with vessels, "often three or four deep," when Hartford was the head of sloop navigation; the heaps of hogsheads of sugar, rum, and molasses covering them; the fleet of flatboats loading for the up-river voyage. Quiet now pervades the River front. Occasionally a fussy tow-boat or a string of slow-moving freight barges ruffles the river surface. A low-cut pleasure steamer for excursions may enliven the scene; and gayety is added by trim naphtha launches. The Sound steamboat appears quite a leviathan among this river-craft. She glides off from her dock in the late afternoon with a gentle movement as if reluctant to disturb the prevailing serenity, and as gently proceeds on the down-river course. From the vantage of the upper deck the eye takes in both sides of the River as the steamer placidly drops down stream. Old Dutch Point appears occupied by the yard and ways of the transportation company which operates...