The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ughan carried the firebrand to Esopus orKingston, the rebel blacksmiths mill was laid in ashes, and he wasconfined in the loathsome Jersey prison-ship at New York, where he hadample time for reflection and penitence for three weary years. Alas! thelatter never came. He was a sinner against ministers, too haidened forrepentance, and he remained a rebel until the close of his life. Anothermill soon arose from the ashes of the old one, and there his grandsons, the THE HUDSON. 193 Messrs. Gill were grinding wheat when we were there for the descendantsof
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ughan carried the firebrand to Esopus orKingston, the rebel blacksmiths mill was laid in ashes, and he wasconfined in the loathsome Jersey prison-ship at New York, where he hadample time for reflection and penitence for three weary years. Alas! thelatter never came. He was a sinner against ministers, too haidened forrepentance, and he remained a rebel until the close of his life. Anothermill soon arose from the ashes of the old one, and there his grandsons, the THE HUDSON. 193 Messrs. Gill were grinding wheat when we were there for the descendantsof both Whigs and Tories, and never inquired into the politics of thepassengers upon their boat at the Milton Ferry. That boat was keepingalive the memory of times before steam was used for navigation. It wasone of only two vessels of the kind upon the Hudson in 18C0, that werepropelled by horse-power. The other was at Coxsakie. The Miltonferry-boat has since been withdrawn. Opposite Spring Brook is the village of Milton, remarkable, like its. NEW HAMBURG TUNNEL. sister, Marlborough, a few miles below, for the picturesque beauty of thesurrounding country and the abundance of Antwerp raspberries producedin its vicinity every year. There and at some places on the eastern shore,are the chief sources of the supply of that delicious fruit for the city ofNew York ; and the quantity raised is so great, that a small steamboat isemployed for the sole purpose of carrying raspberries daily to the villages are upon high banks, and are scarcely visible from theriver. They have a background of rich farming lands, terminating c c 194 THE HUDSON. beyond a sweet valley by a range of lofty hills that are coYcrcd -n-ith theprimeval forest. They are the resort of New Yorkers during the heat ofSlimmer. Eight miles below Poughkeepsie is the little village of I^ew Hambiirg,situated at the foot of a rocky promontory thickly covered with the ArborVitte, or white cedar, and near the mouth of th
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