Rand . ^i — NEWBUIIGH TO POUGHKEEPSIE. 129 kill, in the opening of which is the railway station and steamboatlanding. This was one of the towns bombarded when the Britishwent up the river. It is now a thriving village, which sends agreat quantity of fruit to the city, and welcomes summerboarders. The hilly bank opposite, for two or three miles aboveNew Hamburgh, is dotted with the fine country-houses of theVan Rensselaers; S. W. Johnson at Uplands; J. F. Sheafe atHigh Cliff; Irving Grinnell, on the river brink, at Nether-wood ; Dr. J. Lenox Banks at The Cedars—the house with asquare white towe
Rand . ^i — NEWBUIIGH TO POUGHKEEPSIE. 129 kill, in the opening of which is the railway station and steamboatlanding. This was one of the towns bombarded when the Britishwent up the river. It is now a thriving village, which sends agreat quantity of fruit to the city, and welcomes summerboarders. The hilly bank opposite, for two or three miles aboveNew Hamburgh, is dotted with the fine country-houses of theVan Rensselaers; S. W. Johnson at Uplands; J. F. Sheafe atHigh Cliff; Irving Grinnell, on the river brink, at Nether-wood ; Dr. J. Lenox Banks at The Cedars—the house with asquare white tower—and many others. Still farther north, thetower of Elkhorn, the residence of Prof. R. H. Bull, willattract attention. A few miles farther briugs the traveler to Milton., anotherlittle fruit-yielding port and village, among the hills on the west-ern side. The West Shoro Railroad has a station here, and theHudson River Railroad one opposite, whence a traveler may beset across by boatmen. Milton is
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