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THE PICTURESQUE HUDSON

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED
BY
CLIFTON JOHNSON

PICTURESQUE RIVER SERIES

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
New York 1915

LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. LIMITED
Copyright, 1909,
by the Macmillan Company.
Published September, 1909.
Reprinted March, 1915.

Introductory Note

IT Is believed that the volumes in this Picturesque Rivers Series are sufficiently comprehensive in their text to make them distinctly valuable as guide books; and at the same time they are compact enough in size not to be burdensome to those who wish to carry them in trunk or bag. There is, of course, no attempt to give a detailed catalog of all the charms of any particular stream, for that could only be done at a sacrifice of readableness. But the more striking features — picturesque, historic, literary, legendary — have received ample attention. A great variety of volumes more or less closely related to the story of each river has been consulted, and many fragments of fact and fancy have been culled from such sources and woven into the text of the present series; but there is also included much which is the result of personal observation, and of contact with chance acquaintances, who furnish to every traveller a great deal of the pleasure and human interest of any particular journey.

The numerous pictures were all made especially for these books with the intent of supplying an attractive summary of each stream’s individuality. All in all, the books, both in their literary and pictorial features, are of such a character that they should be of general interest and in a marked degree serviceable to whoever wishes to make a journey beside or on any of the rivers that find place in this series