What to see in America . The Palisades of the Hudson VIII New York State New York, the Empire State, so called because it ranksfirst in the Union in population, manufacturing, commerce,and wealth, takes high rank also for its scenic its area, or on its borders, are the Catskills, theAdirondacks, the Hudson, Lake George and Lake Cham-plain, Niagara, and the Thousand Islands of the St. early as 1524 a Florentine navigator entered NewYork Bay, and he must have gone up the Hudson at leastas far as the Palisades, for he speaks of it as The River ofthe Steep Hills. The
What to see in America . The Palisades of the Hudson VIII New York State New York, the Empire State, so called because it ranksfirst in the Union in population, manufacturing, commerce,and wealth, takes high rank also for its scenic its area, or on its borders, are the Catskills, theAdirondacks, the Hudson, Lake George and Lake Cham-plain, Niagara, and the Thousand Islands of the St. early as 1524 a Florentine navigator entered NewYork Bay, and he must have gone up the Hudson at leastas far as the Palisades, for he speaks of it as The River ofthe Steep Hills. The Indians called it The Great Riverof the Mountains. The English sea captain to whom theriver owes its name first saw it in 1609, when, in commandof a little Dutch vessel, the Half Moon, he sailed up its broadsalt-water channel, fancying that it might afford a short cutto China. In the days of Dutch dominion it was called theG 81 82 What to See in America. SUNNYSIDE, THE HoME OF WASHINGTON IrVING North River to distinguish it from the Delaware, which wasthe South River of their realm. The Hudson rises in the Adirondacks andflows a distanceof three hundredmiles nearly duesouth to theocean. The most sat-isfactory way tosee the river isto travel on aHudson DayLine steamer,leaving NewYork in the morning and arriving at Albany in the earlyevening. You do not go far before you have the giantprecipices of the Palisades on the left shore. Presently theriver expands into the Tappan Sea, a famous cruising placefor ghosts and goblins. On the eastern side of the sea, twomiles south of Tarry-town, is Sunny-side, the home ofWashington Irvingin his later Tarrytown wascaptured the youth-ful British spy,Major Andre, whilehe was serving as anemissary of BenedictArnold, who was ar-ranging to betray West Point into the hands of the is Sleepy Hollow, which Irving made famous, and you
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