The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ROCKLAND, OR SLAlGnTERERS LANDING. It was a weary way up the steep shore to the village and the lake, onthe borders of a high and well-cultivated valley, half a mile from the is the famous Rockland Lake, whose congealed waters have been so K 11 306 THE HUDSON. long familiar to the thirsty dwellers ia the metropolis. It is a lovelysheet of water, one hundred and fifty feet above the river. On its south-eastern borders, excepting where the village and ice-houses skirt it, aresteep, rugged shores. Westward, a fertile country stretches away m
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ROCKLAND, OR SLAlGnTERERS LANDING. It was a weary way up the steep shore to the village and the lake, onthe borders of a high and well-cultivated valley, half a mile from the is the famous Rockland Lake, whose congealed waters have been so K 11 306 THE HUDSON. long familiar to the thirsty dwellers ia the metropolis. It is a lovelysheet of water, one hundred and fifty feet above the river. On its south-eastern borders, excepting where the village and ice-houses skirt it, aresteep, rugged shores. Westward, a fertile country stretches away manya mile to rough hills and blue mountains. The lake is an irregular ellipsein form, half a mile in length, and three-fourths of a mile at its greatestwidth, and covers about five hundred acres. It is supplied by springs inits own bosom, and clear mountain brooks, and forms the head waters ofthe Hackensack river, which flows through New Jersey, and reaches the. EOCKLAKU LAKK. salt water in Newark Bay. Near its outlet, upon a grassy peninsula, isthe residence of Moses G. Leonard, Esq., seen in the picture ; and in thedistance, from our point of view, is seen the peak of the great TomMountain, back of Haverstraw. Along the eastern margin of the lakewere extensive buildings for the storeage of ice in winter, at which timea thousand men were sometimes employed. The crop averaged nearlytwo hundred thousand tons a-year; and during the warm season, onehundred men were employed in conveying it to the river, and fifteen THE HUDSON. 307 barges were used in ti-ansporting it to ISTew York, for distribution there,and exportation. We crossed the bay to Croton Point, visited the villa and vineyards of
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