The New York and Albany post road, from Kings Bridge to "the ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," being an account of a jaunt on foot made at sundry convenient times between May and November, nineteen hundred and five . ing is now left of it but the little old brick ofifice, whichstands disconsolate along the street, watching through half-closed blinds the great woodworking plant which occupies thesite of the old home of the Patroon. One other reminder of the days gone by still survives in thePeter Schuyler house in the northern limits of Albany, at theFlats. Lossing says of this: It is fa
The New York and Albany post road, from Kings Bridge to "the ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," being an account of a jaunt on foot made at sundry convenient times between May and November, nineteen hundred and five . ing is now left of it but the little old brick ofifice, whichstands disconsolate along the street, watching through half-closed blinds the great woodworking plant which occupies thesite of the old home of the Patroon. One other reminder of the days gone by still survives in thePeter Schuyler house in the northern limits of Albany, at theFlats. Lossing says of this: It is famous in Colonial history asthe residence of Col. Peter Schuyler, of the Flats, the first mayorof Albany, and who, as Indian Commissioner in after years tookfour kings or sachems of the Mohawks to England and presentedthem at the court of Queen Anne. IT IS FINISHED. And now we have finished, and there is naught to do but re-turn home, and various are the ways of doing it. If time is of nomoment there is the west bank of the Hudson to explore all theway down to Paulus Hook, from whence the ferry will easily landone once more on the Island of Manhattan. If time counts, thenight boat is a simple solution of the
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