xt7vmc8rcd01 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7vmc8rcd01/data/mets.xml 187274 books b92-118-28575320v2 English D. Appleton, : New York : Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. United States Description and travel. United States Pictorial works. Qubebec (Province) Description and travel. Qubebec (Province) Pictorial works.Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890. Picturesque America, or, The Land we live in : a delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cadnons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country / with illustrations on steel and wood, by eminent American artists ; edited by William Cullen Bryant. (vol. 2) text Picturesque America, or, The Land we live in : a delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cadnons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country / with illustrations on steel and wood, by eminent American artists ; edited by William Cullen Bryant. (vol. 2) 1872 2002 true xt7vmc8rcd01 section xt7vmc8rcd01 N 11 , 2 0 ii I N m I 0 I This page in the original text is blank. jjjt ,; : I ,, o". -1 I FF 9 V 'II ( IA( - PICTURESQUE AMERICA; OR, THE LAND WE LIVE IN. A DELINEATION BY PEN AND PENCIL OF THE MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, LAKES, FORESTS, WATER-FALLS, SHOREIS CARONS, VALLEYS, CITIES, AND OTHER PICTURESQUE FEATURES OF OUR COUNTRY. With flustvatious on Atet and wtod, by (Iinent tmnimas Artilto. EDITED BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. VOL. II. NEW YORK: D. APPIETON AND COMPANY, 549 55I BROADWAY. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year i874, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Cengress, at Washington. CONTENTS, VOLUME SECOND. SUBJECT. HIGHLANDS AND PALISADES OF THE HUDSON. S PHILADELPHIA AND ITS SUBURBS. NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. VALLEY OF THE CONNECTICUT. BALTIMORE AND ENVIRONS. THE CATSKILLS. THE JUNIATA. ON THE OHIO. THE PLAINS AND THE SIERRAS. THE SUSQUEHANNA. BOSTON. LAKE GEORGE AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN. MOUNT MANSFIELD. VALLEY OF THE HOUSATONIC. THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI. VALLEY OF THE GENESEE. ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY. EASTERN SHORE. THE ADIRONDACK REGION. THE CONNECTICUT SHORE OF THE SOUND. LAKE MEMPHREMAGOG. AUTHOR. E. L. BURLINGAME. C. D. GARDETTE. W. F. WILLIAMS. W. C. RICHARDS. J. C. CARPENTER. HENRY A. BROWN. R. E. GARCZYNSKI. CONSTANCE F. WVOOLSON. E. L. BURLINGAME. R. E. GARCZYNSKI. G. M. TOWLE. 0. B. BUNCE. ROSSITER JOHNSON. W. C. RICHARDS. R. E. GARCZYNSKI. W. S. WARD. W. H. RIDEING. G. M. TOWLE. ROBERT CARTER. W. C. RICHARDS. W. H. RIDEINO. ARTIST. Harry Fens. Granville Perkins. 7nles Tatvrnier. 7. D. Woodward. Granville Perkins. Harry Fenn. Granville Perkins. Alfred R. Woeud. Thomas MIoran. Granviie Perkins. 7. D. Wowdward. Harry Finn. Harry Fenn. 7. D. Woodward. Alfred R. Wand. 7. D. Woodward. 7ames D. Smillie. 7. D. Woodward. Harry Fenn. W. H. Gibson. 7. D. IVoodward. PAGF 23 47 61 97 116 134 146 168 204 229 253 276 288 318 353 370 395 414 436 451 CONTENTS, VOLUME SECOND. SUBJECT. THE MOHAWK, ALBANY, AND TROY. THE UPPER DELAWARE. WATER-FALLS AT CAYUGA LAKE. THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. THE CARONS OF THE COLORADO. CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE. A GLANCE AT THE NORTHWEST. THE MAMMOTH CAVE. NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN. WASHINGTON. AUTHOR. R. E. GARCZYNSKI. W. H. RIDEING. W. H. RIDEING. W. H. RIDEING. J. E. COLBURN. 0. B. BUNCE. W. H. RIDEING. W. H. RIDEING. 0. B. BUNCE. G. M. TOWLE. ARTIST. Woodward and Fens. 7. D. Woodward. 7. D. Woodward. Thomas Moran. ThRomas Moran. Alfred R. Waud. Alfred R. Waud. Alfred R. Wamd. Harry Fenn. W. L. Shejjard. 'v PAGE 457 471 477 482 503 512 529 540 545 566 LIST OF ENGRAVINGS ON VOLUME SECOND, SUBJECT. NEW YORK, FROM BROOKLYN HEIGHTS. DOME OF THE CAPITOL. WEST POINT. MOUTH OF THE MOODNA. PHILADELPHIA, FROM BELMONT. CONNECTICUT VALLEY, FROM MOUNT TOM. BALTIMORE, FROM DRUID-HILL PARK. SUNRISE, FROM SOUTH MOUNTAIN, CATSKILL. CITY OF CINCINNATI. CITY OF LOUISVILLE. EMIGRANTS CROSSING THE PLAINS. CALIFORNIANS LASSOING BEAR. THE SUSQUEHANNA. BOSTON, FROM SOUTH BOSTON. LAKE GEORGE. THE HOUSATONIC. THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS. QUEBEC. BEVERLY COAST, MASSACHUSETTS. ARTIST. A. C. WARREN. HARRY FENN. HARRY FENN. DAVID JOHNSON. GRANVILLE PERKINS. J. D. WOODWARD. GRANVILLE PERKINS. HARRY FENN. A. C. WARREN. A. C. WARREN. F. 0. C. DARLEY. F. 0. C. DARLEY. GRANVILLE PERKINS. J. D. WOODWARD. J. W. CASILEAR. A. F. BELLOWS. A. C. WARREN. J. D. WOODWARD. J. F. KENSETT. ENGRAVER. FACE PAGE. G. R. Hall. Freutispitce. E. P. Braxdard. Tidle-ag. S. V. Hxnt. FACE 9 G. W. Wldstiod. 21 R. HinsAhelwod. 40 R. Hins/elmood. 80 R. HisAelwood. 97 S. V. Hxnt. 126 W. Wellstood. i6i E. P. Brandard. i65 H. B. Hall. 176 F. Holl. 201 R. Hinsxhtwood. 216 E. P. Bramdard. 233 R. Hinseelwood. 256 S. V. Hxnx. 289 R. HixsRhIumod. 321 R. Hixshtlwod. 384 S. V Heat. 401 STEEL. LIST OF ENGRA VINS OA" STEEL. SUBJECr. ADIRONDACK WOODS. EAST ROCK, NEW HAVEN. THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. CITY OF MILWAUKEE. TERRACE, CENTRAL PARK. WASHINGTON, FROM ARLINGTON HEIGHTS. ARTIST. J. M. HART. C. G. GRISWOLD. W. WHITThREDGE. A. C. WARREN. C. ROSENBERG. W. L. SHEPPARD. vi ENGRAVER. R. Hinshetwood. S. V Hunt. R. Hinshelwood. R. Hinshelwood. G. R. Hall. R. Hinshelwood. FACE PAGE. 425 444 488 528 557 569 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. Poughkeepsie, and its Founderies at Night. HIGHLANDS AND PALISADES OF THE HUDSON. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRY FENN. T o those who are willing to accept such unobtrusive companionship as we have to offer, in this artist's voyage among the noblest scenes of our most beautiful and perfect American river, wve must say at the beginning that wve shall not follow the tra- 12 2 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. ditions of the ordinary guide. To him it matters little by what path he leads a trav- eller to the most glorious outlook, nor does he care for his observer's frame of mind; he will suddenly show you the Rhine-fall from the back-door of a dingy beer-house, and point out your first view of Niagara through the dusty window of a hackney-coach. To us, the way of approach seems of no little moment; and here especially, among the scenes we know so well, we have our fixed ideas of the traveller's most satisfying course. The true way, then, to learn the noblest beauties of the Hudson's grandest region, is to enter the Highlands with the river's course; beginning the voyage from some point above, watching the growing picturesqueness of the stream, and noting the gradual rise of the hills, the increasing grandeur of their outline, and the deepening majesty of their presence, until, with his heart full of this slowly-gaining beauty, one finds himself among the perfect pictures which lie in the very midst of the mountain-group. Let us enter on our journey in search of the picturesque, then, from some point at a little dis- tance up the river. Newburg is too near the Highlands; it lies in the shadow of their The fludisn, suth from Nervburg. HIGHLANDS AND PALISADES OF THE HUDSON. very gates; let us be- w' q , gin our voyage at that as the;XIpoint of practical as well as heoetialconvenience -at Poughkeepsie. Indeed, our place of depart- On the Old Newburg Toll Road. ure is itself, in the matter of picturesque outlook, not to be despised. The "rural city:" as one of our writers has called it, lies very pleasantly upon its group of gentle hills, and overlooks a bright and sunny portion of the river- view. By day, one may quarrel a little with the smoke of its busy founderies, but by night these become the most strangely beautiful and striking feature in many miles of the Hudson's scenery. They light the river like weird beacons, and the sound of their great furnaces comes across the water in the stillness, as the panting of giants that toil when the weaker forces of the world are all asleep. Our departure from Poughkeepsie allows us to approach the Highlands by the "Long Reach "-that quiet and sunny portion of the river's course that here lies like a broad, straight avenue between the beautiful banks, for more than twenty miles. Its upper extremity is at Crom Elbow-the Krom Elleboge of the old Dutch settlers; its 3 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. lower is at Newburg. Sail- ing down it, we pass many points which their history, as well as their beauty, makes noteworthy. Here, on the eastern bank, two miles below the town, is Locust Grove, entitled to remembrance as the summer home of Morse, whose name the wires of his telegraph have told to all the world. A mile or two farther on, where Spring Brook comes into the Hudson, lived stout Theophilus Anthony, the blacksmith, a century ago, who helped to forge the , great chain that once guard- 9 ed the river at Fort Mont- gomery, below. Farther still 10 in the Long Reach lie the bright little villages of Mil- ton and Marlborough, al- most hidden from the river by the high banks; we pass New Hamburg, too, called into sad prominence a year or two ago by one of the terrible disasters that are all too common now; and so, noting picturesque little Fishkill on our left, we come upon the beautiful Newburg Bay-the most perfect of the Hudson's har- bors Close by the gate of the Highlands, opposite the 4 WEST POINT, AND SCENES IN VICINITY PICTURESQUE AMERICA. range of the Fishkill hills, and overlooking a stretch of river and shore such as you may hardly find anywhere else in the world, Newburg lies, with its bright group 4 of picturesquely-clustered houses, with memories of old Revolutionary : h:: idays surrounding it, and every association con- nected with it that should make it a marked town among our historic places. Here were Wash- ington's headquarters dur- ing a part of the storm- iest of the war - time; St. Mary's Church at and here, in combating Cold Spring. with the strongest and simpliest eloquence, the work of the famous "Newburg Addresses," he perhaps, more than anywhere else, showed how great agents were his strength of will and earnest purpose in the sal- vation of the country. It is with the beauty of the old town, however, and not with its his- tory, that we have to do. From the shore below it we have gained one of the most perfect views of this noble part of the Hudson's course. We see the entrance of the Highlands, and the broad expanse of water lying between this and the town. This is the very perfection of an approach to the glorious scenery below. The broad bay forms a kind of enchanted border-region, which the true guide will let his visitor study well; and it and its shores-along which one should pass to fully learn the beauty of the great stretch of sunny river-put one in the truest mood for the first sight of the grander aspects of mountain and stream upon which he is to look with the next stage of his jour- ney. One should pass, we say, along the shore as well as make the voyage upon the river, to catch the full beauty of this scene in Newburg Bay. The old toll-road runs along the western bank of the Hudson here, and gives from time to time such glimpses of the hills below as are worth a day's travel to seek. From one of these Mr. Fenn has shown the very spirit of the whole scene. This is a portion of the journey that no 6 HIGHLANDS AND PALISADES OF THE HUDSON. one should miss. And now we are within the gates of the Highlands themselves, in the presence of the great Storm-King and the dark pile of the Cro'-Nest. To us these two noble mountains are the grandest of the Highland range. They have a charm that might induce a man to live in their shadow for no other purpose than to have them always before him, day and night, to study their ever-changing beauty. For they are never twice alike; the clouds make varying pictures all day long on their wooded sides, and nowhere have we seen more wonderful effects of shadow and sun- shine. Under the frowvn of a low thunder-cloud they take on a grim majesty that makes their black masses strangely threatening and weird; one 4a\i7't\2 nm forgets to measure their height, and their massive, Glimpse of the Hudson from Fort Putnam. strongly-marked features, by any common standard of every-day measurement, and they seem to tower and overshadow all the scene around them, like the very rulers and controllers of the coming storm. And when the sunlight comes back again, they seem to have brought it, and to look down with a bright benignity, like giant protectors of the valley that lies below. Beyond them, on a remarkable and beautiful promontory, extending into the river at what seems to us the most perfect point of the whole course of tne Hudson, lies West Point. It has always been to us an ideal place. In its shores, every view of 7 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. which is full of picturesque charm ; in the dark back- ground of its hills; in the aspect - somewhat unusual in our America - of its earthworks and defences, and all the sulroundings that have been given it by the long years of its occu- pancy as a military school; in its broad plain, forming the central ground of hu- man action, on which the great natural amphitheatre of the Highlands looks si- lently down; even in the grouping of its cluster of buildings, and in the pictu- resque monuments about it, View south from the Academy Grounds. that call up so many mem- ories, there seems to us a harmony of beauty that makes the site of our important miii tary post one of the most attractive spots in the wvhole country. It is from West Point, too, that the most satisfying viewvs of the Hudson itself are 8 J'- 'ki o N 4 Ix,-',Lk I Vt Nk N This page in the original text is blank. HIGHLANDS AND PALISADES OF THE HUDSON. to be gained. Whoever has looked out from the broad veranda of the hotel near the parade-the familiar "Roe's "-and seen the broad reach of the river stretching north- ward between the picturesque dark hills, never forgets the perfect vista that lies before him here. Equally beautiful in sunshine and shadow, and fairly glorious in a storm, this is such a scene as no other river can show. Sit and watch it lying under the sky of a cloudless autumn morning, when its outlines all seem mellowed with a touch of golden haze, and it is framed by the many-colored splendors of the foliage of late October; or see it when the perfect beauty of the new green of spring is over its hills, and the river is just rippled by a touch of air; or, best, perhaps, and certainly grandest of all, when the overhanging thunder-cloud of a summer afternoon comes slowly nearer, and first the sharply-outlined black shadow, and then the distinct, clearly-marked edge of the pelting storm, approach across hills and river, until, with the growing thunder and whirl of rain, you find yourself overtaken by the tempest; see this picture of the Hudson in one of these aspects or in all, and you will grant that no Old World vaunted Rhine can show you more and truer beauty than is thus given in our own home. But this perfect river-view, which lies always before the visitor, to be enjoyed with- out an effort, and to satisfy even without any thing else, is really only the beginning of what West Point has to offer to a lover of the picturesque. Turn in whatever direction one may from the parade-ground of the academy-the recognized central point of all things at the post-he finds new points of outlook, and new beauty waiting for him everywhere. On the summit of Mount Independence, an irregular hill, some distance back from the river, are the ruins of old Fort Putnam-such ruins as are left of the once stout work; and, climbing to these, one gains a new glimpse of the Highlands and the water. It is useless to try to show in words the different and always fresh charm that each new point of observation gives; nor could the pencil show it with entire suc- cess unless it could fill a volume with sketches, in which even then one would miss the glorious coloring that forms a crowning beauty of these hills. The ruins of the fort are themselves picturesque, with that beauty of ruins that is so rare with us in America- the nameless charm that, even for the least sentimental, always surrounds an old, decay- ing structure that has played its part in the world, and seems resting and looking on dreamily, only an observer now, and not an actor. Close by the central grounds of the academy there are other relics of old days, monuments that have an interest besides their picturesque aspect, as they lie among the green of the turf and trees. Along the steep shore of the river, that rises so suddenly as to form a series of sharp precipices and rough terraces between them, there are many of these memorials, and many historic nooks. Here, half-way down the slope of the shore, is A Kosciuszko's Garden," where the brave Pole used to make his favorite haunt, and where he would lie and read in his leisure, regardless, according to the story, of the a: THE HUDSON AT "COZZENS'S." HIGHLANDS AND PALISADES OF THE HUDSON. fact that shot from the vessels in the river now and then struck the rocks not far away. Along the paths that lead from one to another of these natural terraces are smooth cliffs, on which the names of famous victories have been cut in large, bold letters; the vines and ferns give to these natural frames of green, and the plain records are the most perfect that could have been devised-better than any tablets of less noble sim- plicity. There is no lack of memorial-stones erected by men's hands, however; here and there a column or an obelisk looks out from the foliage-a monument to some army hero, who once went out into earnest battle from the quiet existence and petty events of "the corps." Down by the most beautiful part of the shore runs the path-memorable in the lives of countless fledgling soldiers-that has been named by profane souls "1 Flirtation Walk"-a designation at which the heart of any man over two-and-twventy must sink, in despair of his race. For the path is a perfect ideal of beauty; at every point of its course there are glimpses of hills and river that it makes a man's whole life better to have seen; and yet it must exist for whole generations more of gray-clad youngsters under the title of " Flirtation Walk!" Not that we quarrel with the fact of the flirta- tion-under sun, moon, or stars, there is no such place for tender passages and summer love-making-but why did not some young hero, with his memory full of these things, christen it by any name, though ever so ultra-sentimental, that would commemorate them better than the chosen title that now rules From the shady nooks of the West Point shores one may look out upon parts of the opposite bank that are, in their quieter fashion, also beautiful. Opposite the prom- ontory of the Point lies the little village of Cold Spring-a bright group of houses by the water. Above and below it the shore rises into high, steep banks, and on one of these stands the little church of St. Mary's, which Mr. Fenn has chosen for a pict- ure that might almost persuade one he was looking upon some view of a little chapel crowning the rocks by an old river of Europe, so quaint is it, and so foreign in its features to the ordinary aspect of our American scenes. Near by it the railway runs along the bank and through a rough tunnel in the ragged point; but the little church looks like a mediwval building, as far removed as possible from the practical progress of to-day. But we must not long digress from the detail-even though it be so meagre-of the beauties that more closely surround the West Point plain. We should be unfaithful to our duties as guide if we did not lead the looker-on at these favorite scenes of ours to some few more of the points from which he will carry away pleasant memories. One of these is the landing-place itself at which he finds himself upon arrival by the ordi- nary route from the city; for one is carried by the train to Garrison's, on the Hudson's eastern side, and thence in a little steamer across the river, and is landed at the foot of the cliffs of the promontory. Here is a road leading to the plain above, and built by I I PICTURESQUE AMERICA. the engineers in a single long slope from the water, along the steep face of the shore, to the point where it again reaches level ground. It is to this road and the views seen from it that we would, in guide-book manner, call the reader's notice. Whoever is sound in wind and limb should walk up the long, regularly-graded ascent, and now and then look down at the river. It lies below him, seen through the branches of the trees, as he will see it nowhere else. Such a sense of overhanging the water is hardly felt even on the Palisades themselves. The rocks above and below the road are grouped in Anthony's Nose, from the Western Shore. rough, massive forms; the sense of height is far greater than actual measurement would warrant; and the outlook, wherever one turns, is striking, and such as will be gained from perhaps no other point but this, midway in the slope along the cliff. On the opposite side of the promontory from this, and some distance beyond the academy grounds, is the cemetery of the post. Overlooking the river to the north and east, and lying in a little level plain above the cliffs, where the sunlight falls all day long, and where every thing in scene and surrounding seems to join in giving quiet 1 2 , 19 HIGHLANDS AND PALISADES OF THE HUDSON. and peaceful beauty to it, it is such a resting - place as any man might choose after a sol- dier's stormy life. Here Scott is buried, and here are many heroes of fame more or less widely spread-all honored by the younger men growing up to take their places, with an honor partly made up of gen- erous ambition to go and do like them, partly of an admi ration for bravery in the ab- stract, and partly of the name- less and indescribable senti- ment of veneration that hangs about the memory of "' a grad- uate." To us, the cemetery- overlooked by dark old Cro'- Nest; looking down on the river far below; quiet and peaceful in the sunlight; silent, yet never gloomy, under the stars; scarcely touched, it would seem, even by the winds of the Highland storms-is among the West Point scenes that seems most beautiful. We must not leave the Point without saying some- thing of the associations, which, besides its beauty, make it a place full of interest to every traveller through the Hudson's scenery. For here are the scenes of not a few events to which every one's memory turns back familiarly, and the whole neighborhood is Near Anthony's Nose at Night. 13 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. among the most famous regions of our history. During the War of the Revolution, West Point was, if not the principal, at least one of the most important military posts in the country. Singular as such a statement must appear to us now, it was looked upon-as an American historian has phrased it-as the key to the passage between the New-England and the Middle States-the colonies of Revolutionary days. It com- manded the entrance to the Upper Hudson; it was the centre of the scene of many principal movements of the war; it was invaluable as a deposit for munitions, and troops were mustered within its fortifications, to be sent to every part of the theatre of action. Upon its defences was concentrated much of the attention and effort of the Congress and the leaders of the army. Here, from Gee's Point to Constitution Island (no longer surrounded by the stream), was stretched across the Hudson the huge chain, to which reference has been made already. "It was laid," says the best descrip- tion that we have at hand, "across a boom of heavy logs, that floated near together. These were sixteen feet long, and pointed at each end, so as to offer little resistance to the tidal currents. The chain was fastened to these logs by staples, and at each shore by huge blocks of wood and stone." Several of the great links of the chain are pre- served at the Point; and the work of the stout old blacksmith looks as though it might have borne the wear and rust of centuries; but by the vessels of an enemy its strength was never tested. Here, too, on a conspicuous part of the promontory, Kos- ciuszko constructed Fort Clinton, in 1778. Of Fort Putnam we have already spoken; and, indeed, the whole vicinity of the post was provided with no mean works for forti- fication and defence. It is not hard to see, then, apart from other reasons, why Wash- ington and his generals looked upon it as, perhaps, their chief fortress. The fighting col- onies had no other military stronghold of such extent and permanent character as this. All these features of the place contributed to increase the magnitude of the crime which will always be associated with the history of West Point-the treason of Bene- dict Arnold. It is impossible to forget it as we look at the scene of the plan-impos- sible even for us, who have come to seek rather the beauty of the present than the stir- ring recollections of the past. Inevitably we picture again in mind, as we did when school-boys, the September morning when the traitor heard of the miscarriage of his plans, and wonder what feeling came to him as he sat at the table of Beverly House (where Colonel Beverly Robinson had made his home, on the eastern side of the river, nearly opposite the post), and the note was brought to him from his subordi- nate at the military station below, that said "Major Andrd, of the British army, is a prisoner in my custody." The scene with his wife, the hurried flight, his treacherous sur- render of his boatmen-all these things that were wont to stir our blood when we read them in the school-histories, come back to us perforce when we linger at the Highland fortress. It must have been, indeed, a sorry time for more men than Arnold; and one can have a feeling of thorough sympathy for the disheartened commander-in-chief, when 14 hllWILAADUJ3 ADSU tAL1hAVPk3 UP lHP Hk USUS. 15 he tured to Lafayette and Knox with his "Whom can we trust now" But we are Playing false to our guie duty in thus digressing to talk of the by-gone days, when the Hudson had added to its beauties the interest of war. Anthony's Nose, from Iona Island. Because we have lingered so long in the beautiful neighborhood of West Point and its really glorous scenery, the patient reader must not fancy that the noblest views of the Highlands approach PICTURESQUE AMERICA. their end when the picturesque mili- tary post is passed. So far is this from being the fact, that we fear we have given to what is, we confess, our favorite of all the places on the river's shore, more than its share of time and space. For we have not yet spoken of Cozzens's, that familiar and great resort of summer pleasure-seekers, perched high on the brow of the cliff that is the most prominent on the western shore for several miles below the Military Academy. Nothing could be more pictu- resque than the situation of the great building of the hotel, high up in air, looking down upon all the noblest of the river - views. It is several hundred feet above the water in reality; but it looks twice the real distance from the low shore at the base of the cliff to the foundations of the house, for the precipice is here so bold and rugged that the most practised eye is deceived by its appearance of great height. Along this steep descent runs the road, cut as at the post-landing above, in a well- graded slope from the river to the summit of the cliffs. On the shore Mr. Fenn has found a point of view where one may deceive himself into the belief that he looks upon some legend-aunted ruin near the Rhine or the Neckar, so picturesquely are the out- lines of this commonplace old structure by the Cozzens's Landing shaped and scarred by time and weather. But we must hasten on, for now, a little distance-farther down the river, we come i6 HIGHLANDS AND PALISADES OF THE, HUDSON. upon another of the most glorious mountain-groups of the Highlands-the most southern of all, forming the lower gate, as the Storm-King and its fellows form the upper. Chief among this new group is the bold height of Anthony's Nose, descending sharply to the water of the river at one of the most perfect bends in all its course. So boldly does the promontory jut out into the stream that it seems actually to close its channel; and the good Hendrick Hudson, as he approached it, thought for a time that his progress was finally brought to a close, and that the arm of the sea, up which he imagined that he was sailing, had ended here among the hills. The stee