. How our grandfathers lived . eed whenthe cabin was lighted up for tea and sandwiches inthe evening, it more resembled a ball-room supper,than, as might have been expected, a stage-coachmeal. The charge, including board, from New Yorkto Albany, one hundred and sixty miles, is seven dol-lars. We started under the auspices of a bright frostymorning. The first few minutes were naturally spentby me in examining the machinery, by means ofwhich our huge leviathan, with such evident ease,won her way against the opposing current. More 1 OO Travellers 35 interesting objects are breaking fast on the vi
. How our grandfathers lived . eed whenthe cabin was lighted up for tea and sandwiches inthe evening, it more resembled a ball-room supper,than, as might have been expected, a stage-coachmeal. The charge, including board, from New Yorkto Albany, one hundred and sixty miles, is seven dol-lars. We started under the auspices of a bright frostymorning. The first few minutes were naturally spentby me in examining the machinery, by means ofwhich our huge leviathan, with such evident ease,won her way against the opposing current. More 1 OO Travellers 35 interesting objects are breaking fast on the view ; onour right are the sloping sides n| New York Island,studded with villas, over a soil from which the handof cultivation has long since rooted its woodland glo-lies, and substituted the more varied decorations tpark and shrubbery, intersected with brown stubblesand meadows ; on our left, the bold features ofnature rise, as in days of yore, unimpaired, unchange-able; grey cliffs, like aged battlements, tower perpen-. AN M KAM1JOAT. dicularly from the waters edge to the height ofseveral hundred feet. Hickory, dwarf oak, andstunted cedars twist fantastically within their crevices,and deepen the shadows of each glen into which theyoccasionally recede ; huge masses of disjointed rocksare scattered at intervals below; here the sand hascollected sufficiently to afford space for the wood-mans hut, but the narrow waterfall, which in summerturns his saw-mill, is now a mighty icicle glitteringto the morning sun ; here and there a scarcely percep- NO. 35] Early Steamboat 101 tible track conducts to the rude wharf, from whichthe weather-worn lugger receives her load of timberfor the consumption of the city. Evening began to close in as we approached thehighlands: the banks on either side towered up moreboldly, and a wild tract of mountain scenery rose be-yond them. The river, which had been graduallywidening, now expanded into a capacious lake, towhich the eye could distinguish
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