. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . §\^^ 1? NIAGARA has its majestic grandeur—Lake Georgeits picturesque beauty—but the Hudson has WestPoint and the Highlands. Around West Pointcluster a thousand memories and traditions; memo-ries of the Revolution and the heroes who fought thegood fight which gave us our freedom; memorieswhich cling to the crumbling walls of old Fort Put-nam, still grimly frowning above the green, smooth-cut sward of theParade; traditions of romantic adventures and of hai
. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . §\^^ 1? NIAGARA has its majestic grandeur—Lake Georgeits picturesque beauty—but the Hudson has WestPoint and the Highlands. Around West Pointcluster a thousand memories and traditions; memo-ries of the Revolution and the heroes who fought thegood fight which gave us our freedom; memorieswhich cling to the crumbling walls of old Fort Put-nam, still grimly frowning above the green, smooth-cut sward of theParade; traditions of romantic adventures and of hair-breadthescapes; traditions of the escapades of wild cadets, now growngray in their countrys service, and wearing hard-earned laurels;traditions of the cadet-life of those whose memory will ever live inthe hearts of their countrymen—a better and more lasting witnessof their courage, virtue and nobility, than the shafts of monu-mental stone raised to their memory by surviving comrades, andplaced on the very spot where they, in the first flush of health andhope and opening manhood, dreamed of long, happy and VIEW FROM WEST POINT. THE TOURISTS GUIDE. 47 West Point has sent forth an army of gentlemen, of scholarsand of warriors. It has also sent forth a band of engineers, towhose peaceful labors our mariners owe a never-ending debt ofgratitude—engineers who have patiently and laboriously mappedthe coast of a continent, and marked the reefs and shoals whichhad often wrecked the home-bound vessel, almost in sight of port. West Point has ennobled all who have endeavored to profit byits advantages. There are names now tarnished, which once stoodhigh upon its roll-call. There are those also who were very nearlythe Boobies of their class, whose later career has been honoredand brilliant. West Point is a great centre of interest during the examinations,which are conducted in the month of June. Then, the familyfriends of the enterprising cadets, and many who secretly
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