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A quiet evening

THE PICTURESQUE HUDSON

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED
BY
CLIFTON JOHNSON


PICTURESQUE RIVER SERIES

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
New York 1915


LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. LIMITED
Copyright, 1909,
by the Macmillan Company.
Published September, 1909.
Reprinted March, 1915.


Introductory Note

IT Is believed that the volumes in this Picturesque Rivers Series are sufficiently comprehensive in their text to make them distinctly valuable as guide books; and at the same time they are compact enough in size not to be burdensome to those who wish to carry them in trunk or bag. There is, of course, no attempt to give a detailed catalog of all the charms of any particular stream, for that could only be done at a sacrifice of readableness. But the more striking features — picturesque, historic, literary, legendary — have received ample attention. A great variety of volumes more or less closely related to the story of each river has been consulted, and many fragments of fact and fancy have been culled from such sources and woven into the text of the present series; but there is also included much which is the result of personal observation, and of contact with chance acquaintances, who furnish to every traveller a great deal of the pleasure and human interest of any particular journey.

The numerous pictures were all made especially for these books with the intent of supplying an attractive summary of each stream’s individuality. All in all, the books, both in their literary and pictorial features, are of such a character that they should be of general interest and in a marked degree serviceable to whoever wishes to make a journey beside or on any of the rivers that find place in this series

Contents
I. 
II.
III. 
IV. 
V. 
VI. 
VII. 
VIII. 
IX. 
X. 
XI. 
XII. 
XIII.
XIV. 
Some General Characteristics
A Backlook   

River Traffic

Manhattan

On the Jersey Shore

The Fish and the Fishermen

The Tappan Sea

The Land of Irving

Haverstraw and Stony Point

The Highlands

From Cornwall to Kingston

On the Borders of the Catskills

At the Head of Navigation

From Saratoga to the Source

Illustrations
A quiet evening 
The Hudson at Fort Edward
A stream in the Catskills
On the Battery
Shipping at the Albany wharves
The battle monument — Washington Heights
Anthony’s Nose as seen from Doodletown Bay
The Northern Gateway of the Highlands
The Wharves at Poughkeepsie
On a canal boat
A glimpse of the spire of Trinity Church
Riverside Park and the tomb of General Grant
Fishing in Spuyten Duyvil Creek
The giant buildings of lower Manhattan
          as seen from the Communipaw Ferry

Looking toward New York from the site
          of the Burr-Hamilton duel

A waterside dwelling     
Shad fishermen starting out with their net
A Colonial home at the foot of the Palisades
The Tappan Sea at Irvington
Croton River
“Sunnyside,” the home of Washington Irving
The house in which Arnold and André
          met on “Treason Hill”

The old Dutch church at Sleepy Hollow
Some of the brickyards bordering Haverstraw Bay
The view down the river from Stony Point
The Dunderberg
The Battle Monument at West Point
Storm King under a cloud cap. The Fishkill
The Poughkeepsie Bridge
John Burroughs at “Riverby”
The Vassar Gate
The lake at Vassar
The old Kingston Senate House
Kaaterskill Clove
The Rip Van Winkle hut and the Half-way House.
The oldest house in Hudson.
Albany
Passing through the locks opposite Troy
A glimpse of canal boat life
The falls on the Mohawk near its junction with the Hudson
Saratoga’s vernal business center
The site of Burgoyne’s Surrender
Glen’s Falls
Lake George from the old earthworks of
          Fort William Henry

A village on the borders of the Adirondacks
A millpond among the hills


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