. Traveller's steamboat and railroad guide to the Hudson River : describing the cities, towns, and places of interest along the route : with maps and en . egend will find a place at the neighboringfiresides for all time to come. Nearly opposite Tarry town, on the west side of the river, is the village ofNyach, once celebrated for its quarries of red sandstone. The village isprettily built at the foot of a high cliff, and makes a picturesque appearancefrom the eastern shore. Sing Sing, thirty-two miles from New York, is situated partly upon ele-vated ground, and commands a beautiful view of the
. Traveller's steamboat and railroad guide to the Hudson River : describing the cities, towns, and places of interest along the route : with maps and en . egend will find a place at the neighboringfiresides for all time to come. Nearly opposite Tarry town, on the west side of the river, is the village ofNyach, once celebrated for its quarries of red sandstone. The village isprettily built at the foot of a high cliff, and makes a picturesque appearancefrom the eastern shore. Sing Sing, thirty-two miles from New York, is situated partly upon ele-vated ground, and commands a beautiful view of the river and the surroundingcountry. At this place are several extensive marble quarries. A mineralspring, some three miles east of the village, has some reputation for its medicinalqualities, and a large boarding-house was erected there some years since. Mount Pleasant Academy, for boys, is at Sing Sing. The building is ofSing Sing marble, and stands upon one of the most retired streets of the vil-lage, commanding an extensive prospect of the river and adjacent is also a boarding-school for young ladies at Sing Sing, elegantly State Prison ut Sing Sing. The principal object of interest here is the State Prison. It is situated uponthe bank of the Hudson River, ten feet above high water mark. The railroadruns directly through the prison yard. The prison grounds comprise onehundred and thirty acres, and may be approached by vesseb drawing twelvefeet of water. The keepers house, workshop, &c, are built of rough SingSing marble, quarried from lands owned by the state in the vicinity. Themain building is four hundred and eighty-four feet in length, running parallelwith the river, and forty-four feet in width. It is five stories high, with twohundred cells upon each floor; in all, one thousand cells. The system and discipline of this prison owe their origin to Elam Lynds, HUDSON RIVER AND RAILROAD. 25 for many years agent of the Auburn prison. The convicts are s
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