or, How We Explored the Pequonset River
by Wallace P. Stanley
with illustrations by Henry N. Cady
Here's a charming reminiscence by the author of when two lads, each just past their fifteenth year (he being one of them) took their little sailing and rowing skiff (that they had bought together for the princely sum of ten dollars!), and, on more or less of a whim, undertook a "daring" and "one-of-a-kind" exploration of the upper reaches of the Pequonset River. (The Pequonset drains into Mattaconsett Bay in New Jersey.) Their adventures are spiced with encounters with "savage" turtles and truly dangerous snakes; with mysterious houses and mills and the fright of the looming night! In addition, the descriptions of the flora and fauna are exact and fascinating and the pictures (both prose and pen and ink) of rural life in the late nineteenth century drawn by the author and his illustrator are illuminating The illustrations by Cady are superb! First published in 1891. 43 full page illustrations and numerous in-text illustrations
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