The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . n strong contrast with therugged hills around. On the north side of the valley rises the ThundersNest (which appears in our little sketch), a lofty pile of rocks full eightliundred feet in height \ and from the great bridge, three hundred feetlong, which spanned the Hudson just below the confluence, there was aview of a fine amphitheatre of hills. THE HUDSON. From Tahawus, at the foot of Sandford Lake, to the confluence withthe Scarron, at Warrensburg, a distance of about fifty miles by its course,the Hudson flows most of the way through an almost u
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . n strong contrast with therugged hills around. On the north side of the valley rises the ThundersNest (which appears in our little sketch), a lofty pile of rocks full eightliundred feet in height \ and from the great bridge, three hundred feetlong, which spanned the Hudson just below the confluence, there was aview of a fine amphitheatre of hills. THE HUDSON. From Tahawus, at the foot of Sandford Lake, to the confluence withthe Scarron, at Warrensburg, a distance of about fifty miles by its course,the Hudson flows most of the way through an almost unbroken that region an immense amount of timber is annually cast intothe stream, to be gathered by the owners at the great boom near GlensFalls. From Warrcnsburg to Luzerne, at Jesups Little Falls, the riveris equally imintercstiug, and these two sections we omitted in our explo-rations, because they promised very small returns for the time and labourto be spent in visiting them. 80 at Warrensburg we left the river CONFLUENCE 01- THE HUDSON AND SCAREON. and took a somewhat circuitous route to Luzerne, that we might travel agood road. That route, by far the most interesting for the tourist, leadsby the way of Caldwell, at the head of Lake George, through a moun-tainous and very picturesque country, sparsely dotted with neat farmhousesin the intervals between the grand old hills. The road is planked, andoccasionally a fountain by the wayside sends out its clear stream fromrocks, or a mossy bank, into a rude reservoir, such as is seen delineated THE HUDSON. in the picture at the head of Chapter II. While watering our horses atone of these, the ring of merry hiughter came up through the little valleynear, and a few moments afterward we met a group of young peopleenjoying the pleasures of a pic-nio. At noon we reined up in front of the Fort William Henry Hotel, atthe head of Lake George, where we dined, and then departed through tlieforest for Luzerne. Tha
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