The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . is ?was called Murderers Creek, because, In early times, a family of white people, who livedupon its banks^ was murdered by the Indians. Sir. Willis, with a laudable desire to get rid of a nameso unpleasant, sought reasons for establishing the belief that it is a corruption of the sweet Indian wordMoodna. He has been successful, and the stream is now generally called Moodnas Creek. Such isalso the name of the post-office there, established by the government. It is to be hoped that the oldname will be siieedily forgotten. THE HUDSON. 207 to meet frie
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . is ?was called Murderers Creek, because, In early times, a family of white people, who livedupon its banks^ was murdered by the Indians. Sir. Willis, with a laudable desire to get rid of a nameso unpleasant, sought reasons for establishing the belief that it is a corruption of the sweet Indian wordMoodna. He has been successful, and the stream is now generally called Moodnas Creek. Such isalso the name of the post-office there, established by the government. It is to be hoped that the oldname will be siieedily forgotten. THE HUDSON. 207 to meet friends, or only hoping to see new faces, quite cover the wharf attimes, especially at evening. From the Cornwall Landing an interesting view of the upper entranceto the Highlands, between the Storm King and Breakneck Hill, may beobtained. In our sketch, the former is seen on the right, the latter onthe left. The river is here deep and narrow. The rocky shores, composedprincipally of granite and gneiss, embedding loose nodules and fixed veins. UPPER ENTBANCE TO THE HIGHLANDS. of magnetic iron ore, rise from 1,000 to almost 1,600 feet above the river,and are scantily clothed with stunted trees. The range extends in anorth-eastern and south-western direction across the Hudson, in thecounties of Duchess and Putnam, Orange and Rockland, and connectswith the Alleghanies. Geologists say that it is unequivocally a primitivechain, and in the early ages of the world must have opposed a barrier tothe passage of the waters, and caused a vast lake which covered the 208 THE HUDSON. present Yalley of the Hudson, extending to, if not over. Lake Champlain,eastward to the Taghkanick Mountain, in Columbia County, and theHighlands along the western borders of Massachusetts, and westward tothe Kayaderosseras Mountain, near Lake George, alluded to in ourdescription of the Upper Hudson. Such, they say, must have been informer ages the Ancient Lake of the Upper Yalley of the Hudson,indicated by the level
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