Excerpt from 1609, History of Saratoga County, New York: With Illustration and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers Saratoga County, it may of a truth be said, owes its historical importance to the striking peculiarity of its geo graphical position. From the Island of Montreal, in the River St. Lawrence, a narrow depression, or valley, in the earth's surface ex tends due south, on a line almost as straight as the crow flies, for the distance of nearly four hundred miles, to the Island of Manhattan, at the mouth of the Hudson river, on the shore of the Atlantic ocean. 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.