Sing-Sing Prison and Tappan Zee.

Forest, Rock, and Stream

 

 

A SERIES OF

 

 

TWENTY STEEL LINE-ENGRAVINGS

 

By W. H. BARTLETT AND OTHERS

 

 

WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY N. P. WILLIS AND OTHERS

 

INCLUDING POEMS BY AMERICAN AND FOREIGN AUTHORS

 

 

BOSTON

ESTES AND LAURIAT

1886

Copyright, 1885,

By Estes and Lauriat.

CONTENTS.

VIEW OF HUDSON CITY AND THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS.

A WEDGE-SHAPED promontory, or bluff, pushes forward to the river at this spot; and on its summit, which widens into a noble plain, stands the city of Hudson.

It is supposed that the “Halve-Mane,” the vessel in which the great discoverer made his first passage up the Hudson, reached no farther than two leagues above the city which bears his name, and that the remainder of the exploring voyage was made in the shallop. His reception here was in the highest degree hospitable. “He went on shore in one of their canoes, with an old Indian, who was the chief of forty men and seventeen women: these he saw in a house made of the bark of trees, exceedingly smooth and well-finished within and without. He found a great quantity of Indian corn and beans, enough of which were drying near the house to have loaded three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On coming to the house two mats were spread to sit on, eatables were brought in, in red bowls well made, and two men were sent off with bows and arrows, who soon returned with two pigeons. They also killed a fat dog, and skinned it with shells. They expected their visitors would remain during the night, but the latter determined to return on board. The natives were exceedingly kind and good-tempered; for when they discovered Hudson’s determination to proceed on board, they, imagining it proceeded from fear of their bows and arrows, broke them to pieces and threw them into the fire.”

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