The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . e the turbid waters whose attrition below, working with the warmsun above, loosened the icy chains that for seventy days had held theHudson in bondage, and towards the close of February great masses ofthe shivered fetters were moving with the ebb and flow of the tide. Thesnow disappeared, the buds swelled, and, to the delight of all, onebeautiful morning, when even the dew was not congealed, the blue birds,first harbingers of approaching summer, were heard gaily singing in the 296 THE HUDSON. trees and hedges. It was a welcome and delightful invitat
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . e the turbid waters whose attrition below, working with the warmsun above, loosened the icy chains that for seventy days had held theHudson in bondage, and towards the close of February great masses ofthe shivered fetters were moving with the ebb and flow of the tide. Thesnow disappeared, the buds swelled, and, to the delight of all, onebeautiful morning, when even the dew was not congealed, the blue birds,first harbingers of approaching summer, were heard gaily singing in the 296 THE HUDSON. trees and hedges. It was a welcome and delightful invitation to thefields and waters, and I- hastened to the lower borders of the Highlandregion to resume my pen and pencil sketches of the Hudson from thewilderness to the «ea. The air was as bali^y (a« May on the evening of my amval at SingSing, on the eastern banlrof the Hudson, where the State of New Yorkhas a large penitentiary for men and women. I strolled up the steepand winding street to thelTeart of the village, and took lodgings for the. SLrun ox ti:e niisoN. night. The sun was yet two hours ahove the horizon. 1 went outimmediately upon a short tour of observation, and found ample compen-sation for the toil occasioned by the hilly pathways traversed. Sing Sing is a very pleasant village, of almost four thousand lies upon a rudely broken slope of hills, that rise about one hundredand eighty feet above the river, and overlook Tappan Eay,- or TappaanseZee, as the early Dutch settlers called an expansion of the Hudson, * Tap-ian was the of a Mohegan tribe that inhabited the eastern shores of the bay. THE HUDSON. 297 extending from Tellers or Croton Point on the north, to the northernbluff of the Palisades near Piermont. The origin of the name is to befound in the word Sint-sinck, the title of a powerful clan of the Mohegan
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