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[Illustration: 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_

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                              B O S T O N
                   E S T E S   A N D   L A U R I A T
                                  1886




                           _Copyright, 1885_,
                         BY ESTES AND LAURIAT.
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                               CONTENTS.
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            SING-SING PRISON AND TAPPAN ZEE
            VIEW OF HUDSON AND THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS
            THE NARROWS
            VIEW FROM WEST POINT
            TOWN OF CATSKILL, HUDSON RIVER
            INDIAN FALL, OPPOSITE WEST POINT
            VIEW NEAR ANTHONY’S NOSE, HUDSON HIGHLANDS
            VIEW FROM MOUNT IDA, NEAR TROY, NEW YORK
            HUDSON HIGHLANDS, FROM BULL HILL
            VILLA ON THE HUDSON, NEAR WEEHAWKEN
            CHAPEL OF “OUR LADY OF COLD SPRING”
            PEEKSKILL LANDING
            VIEW FROM RUGGLE’S HOUSE, NEWBURGH, HUDSON RIVER
            THE TWO LAKES ON THE CATSKILLS
            TOWN OF SING-SING
            VIEW FROM FORT PUTNAM
            CROW NEST, FROM BULL HILL, WEST POINT
            THE CATTERSKILL FALLS (FROM BELOW)
            UNDERCLIFF, THE SEAT OF THE LATE GENERAL MORRIS
            WINTER SCENE ON THE CATTERSKILLS




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            VIEW OF HUDSON CITY AND THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS.

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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.”

On his return down the river, Hudson stopped again for four days
opposite the site of the future city. The historical collections give a
very particular account of every day’s movements in this interesting
voyage. “On the report of those whom he had sent to explore the river,”
says the historian, “Hudson found that it would be useless to proceed