. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . THE NEVERSINK HIGHLANDS. 175 dise that the Neversink Hills offer to the gaze of every ocean-wanderer who enters theharbor of New York. These highlands are situated in New Jersey, extending several miles along the coastin a southerly direction. At their feet flows the Shrewsbury River; beyond the riverstretches a narrow strip of sand, upon which the surf of the Atlantic ceaselessly
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . THE NEVERSINK HIGHLANDS. 175 dise that the Neversink Hills offer to the gaze of every ocean-wanderer who enters theharbor of New York. These highlands are situated in New Jersey, extending several miles along the coastin a southerly direction. At their feet flows the Shrewsbury River; beyond the riverstretches a narrow strip of sand, upon which the surf of the Atlantic ceaselessly strip or tongue of sand extends northerly into the sea, somewhat beyond the reachof the hills, which, suddenly trending westward, form, in connection with the Hook, whatis known as Sandy-Hook Bay. The ship entering from the sea stretches past this point. View from the Highlands. of sand, leaving the hills to the left ; but from their receding forms the voyager soonturns to greet the rising shores of Staten Island. There are two distinct bays to theharbor of New York. Staten Island and Long Island approach each other closely, andbetween them runs a small strait, known as the Narrows, which affords entrance to theinner bay; the outer bay, or Lower Bay, as it is commonly called, has upon its leftthe low, sandy shores of Long Island, upon its right a deep estuary, between theNew-Jersey and Staten-Island shores, known as Raritan Bay, Shrewsbury River, whichis probably more an estuary than a river, enters the sea between Raritan Bay andthe Hook. Travellers proceeding by the Southern Railroad of New Jersey, or the 176 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. pleasure-party visiting the famous watering-place of Long Branch, land from the steam-boat at Sandy Hook. The railroad runs along the narrow strip of sand, already men-tioned, that separates the river from
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