The New England magazine . e tour of the boat, with a large hand-bell, and, in an amu-sing speech, full of the idioms of his own race, announces the approach,and requests those who are going ashore to select their baggage. Thisdone, the steamer, gliding over the smooth water at the rate of fifteen ortwenty miles in the hour, sheers in toward the shore, and the small boatis lowered, with the captain in her at the helm; the passengers are put onboard, and away she shoots at the end of a line gradually loosened, but stillkept tight enough to send her, like an arrow to her mark. The momentshe touc
The New England magazine . e tour of the boat, with a large hand-bell, and, in an amu-sing speech, full of the idioms of his own race, announces the approach,and requests those who are going ashore to select their baggage. Thisdone, the steamer, gliding over the smooth water at the rate of fifteen ortwenty miles in the hour, sheers in toward the shore, and the small boatis lowered, with the captain in her at the helm; the passengers are put onboard, and away she shoots at the end of a line gradually loosened, but stillkept tight enough to send her, like an arrow to her mark. The momentshe touches the pier, the loose line is let out from the steamer, which stillkeeps on her way, and between that moment and the exhaustion of the line,perhaps thirty seconds, the baggage is thrown out, and taken in, passengersjump ashore and embark, and away shoots the little boat again, her bowrising clear over the crest of her own foam, with the added velocity of thesteamer at full speed, and the rapid hauling in of the crew. 466. VIEW NEAR ANTHONYS NOSE, HUDSONHIGHLANDS l/ I VHIS mountain known to fame, served as a landmark to the indus-J. trious craft plying upon the Hudson, and thus fulfills a more usefuldestiny than is commonly awarded to spots bright in story. It stands amida host of interesting localities, marked with the events of the Revolution,and has witnessed, with less damage than other noses, many a conflict byland and water. On the opposite side of the river from the base of the mountain, liethe two forts Montgomery and Clinton, taken by the British in October,1777. The commander-in-chief at New York was prompted to this expe-dition by two objects: to destroy a quantity of American stores which theAmericans had collected in this neighborhood, and to make a diversion infavor of General Burgoyne. For these purposes Sir Henry Clinton em-barked between three and four thousand troops at New York and sailedwith them up the Hudson. On the 5th of October they landed at Verplanks
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