The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . lona is upon the dividing line of temperature. The sea breeze stopshere, and its effects are visible upon vegetation. The season is two weeksearlier than at Newburgh, only fourteen miles northward, above theHighlands. It is at the lower entrance to this mountain range. Thewidth of the river between it and Anthonys Nose is only three-eighths ofa mile—less than at any other point below Albany. The water is deep,and the tidal currents are so swift, that this part of the river is called« The Eace. 270 THE HUDSON. Southward from Ion a, on the western sho
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . lona is upon the dividing line of temperature. The sea breeze stopshere, and its effects are visible upon vegetation. The season is two weeksearlier than at Newburgh, only fourteen miles northward, above theHighlands. It is at the lower entrance to this mountain range. Thewidth of the river between it and Anthonys Nose is only three-eighths ofa mile—less than at any other point below Albany. The water is deep,and the tidal currents are so swift, that this part of the river is called« The Eace. 270 THE HUDSON. Southward from Ion a, on the western shore of the river, rises therocky Bonder Berg, or Thunder Mountain, where, in summer, the tempestis often seen brooding. The captains of the river craft, says Irving,in his legend of The Storm-Ship, talk of a little bulbous-bottomedDutch goblin, in trunk hose and sugar-loafed hat, with a speaking-trumpetin his hand, which, they say, keeps the Donder Berg. They declare thatthey have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst of the turmoil,. TUNNEL AT FLAT IOINT. giving orders in Low Dutch, for the piping up of a fresh gust of wind, orthe rattling off of another thunder-clap. That sometimes he has been seensurrounded by a crew of little imps, in broad breeches and short, doublets,tumbling head over heels in the rack and mist, and playing a thousandgambols in the air, or buzzing like a swarm of flics about Anthonys ISose;and that, at such times, thehurry-scurry of the storm was always time a sloop, in passing by the Donder Berg, was overtaken by a THE HUDSON. 271 thunder-gust, that came scouring round the mountain, and seemed toburst just over the vessel. Though tight and well ballasted, she laboureddreadfully, and the vrater came over the gunwale. All the crew wereamazed, when it was discovered that there was a little white sugar-loafhat on the mast-head, known at once to be the hat of the Heer of theBonder Berg. Nobody, however, dared to climb to the mast-head, an
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