Solve this riddle:

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Problem

Solve this riddle:

    Large beyond size but recognized
    from common man to scholars wise
    behind my fall do I begin
    and from my bed the next of kin.

Clues: Down by the river.  A surname functions first!

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-- Wei-Hwa Huang <whuang@cco.caltech.edu>, April 1995
   (riddle posted by <fernas@rebecca.its.rpi.edu>)