Rock River Country of Northern Illinois (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Rock River Country of Northern Illinois Above Camp Grantl, except for a short d1stance at Rockford, the valley Is contlnuously open, and from three to four mlles wide, w1th gently rounded bluffs Slxty to a hundred feet high The żoor of the valley Is mostly a fairly level terrace Into Wth the r1ver has cut Its present w1nd1ng channel forty or fifty feet deep Here and there, the stream żows close to one of the bluffs, and the terrace stretches off to the opposlte bluff on the horlzon In places, the level expanse 15 broken by secondary terraces, or by little wet-weather streams, and here and there are patches of woodland, fragrant In the sprlng w1th the blossoms of the wrld plum. Crab, and locust On the terrace have been bullt the towns of South Be101t, Rock ton, Roscoe, a large part of the industrial sectron of Rockford, and Camp Grant. 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.