. The Catskill Mountains . l Hudson Steamboat Company (nightline) make daily trips between this port and New York. Con-nection is also made here by ferry to Rhinecliff with NewYork Central trains. Leaving Rondout Station, the train winds gracefully upthe grade from tide level and intersects the West Shore Rail-road near the center of the city at UNION STATION. This is an important station of theWest Shore, Wallkill Valley and Ulster & Delaware Railroads,and during the season of summer Catskill Mountain traffic,this is the great diverging point for the mountain fast Catskill Mountain
. The Catskill Mountains . l Hudson Steamboat Company (nightline) make daily trips between this port and New York. Con-nection is also made here by ferry to Rhinecliff with NewYork Central trains. Leaving Rondout Station, the train winds gracefully upthe grade from tide level and intersects the West Shore Rail-road near the center of the city at UNION STATION. This is an important station of theWest Shore, Wallkill Valley and Ulster & Delaware Railroads,and during the season of summer Catskill Mountain traffic,this is the great diverging point for the mountain fast Catskill Mountain special trains on the West Shoreline are here transferred to the Ulster & Delaware track,where powerful engines stand hissing and throbbing, impa-tiently waiting for the mountain run. From this station, looking directly north, an imposing viewof the mountains is presented. The peaks in sight are thefamous Overlook on the left, with Plattekill, High Peak, orMount Lincoln, the Kaaterskill and South Mountain crags on. THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 39 toward the right. The highest of these is Mount Lincoln, 3,664feet, and the next in height is the Overlook, 3,150 feet abovetide. The large house near the sky is the Overlook MountainHouse. The next toward the right is Hotel Kaaterskill, andthe last is the old Catskill Mountain House. But there is barely time to inspect this view when yourtrain pulls out for the mountains and is whirling rapidly overthe lovely fringe of fertile lowland in the northern bounds ofthe city. You pass within a few rods of the famous old Sen-ate House, where New York State was born, which is insight on the left, soon after you pass under the second streetbridge. It was built in 1676, partially burned by the British in1777, and is now owned and kept by the State, having a largeand interesting collection of ancient relics and curiosities. TheEsopus creek is next crossed, and the train plunges boldly upthe southern slope of the picturesque and beautiful Ulster andDe
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