Legends and poetry of the Hudson . led Gre-neva ; and when almost exiled from Europe,takes up the words of Knox, ^^ Grive me Scot-land or I die ; and in the deep fastnesses ofher hills, and in the deeper hearts of a peoplewho drank in liberty with the very air theybreathed, awaited patiently the hour of pro-claiming to the world the right of private judg-ment, both in religion and in politics ; everteaching that noble sentiment of loyalty to cori-viction, which led Charles the first through thewindows of Whitehall upon the scaffold, andbanished the House of Stuart from the Throneof England. It
Legends and poetry of the Hudson . led Gre-neva ; and when almost exiled from Europe,takes up the words of Knox, ^^ Grive me Scot-land or I die ; and in the deep fastnesses ofher hills, and in the deeper hearts of a peoplewho drank in liberty with the very air theybreathed, awaited patiently the hour of pro-claiming to the world the right of private judg-ment, both in religion and in politics ; everteaching that noble sentiment of loyalty to cori-viction, which led Charles the first through thewindows of Whitehall upon the scaffold, andbanished the House of Stuart from the Throneof England. It crosses the ocean and lays here OF THE HUDSON. 87 the foundation of a Republic, where civil andreligious government becomes civil and relig-ions liberty^ and the Divine Right of Kings be-comes the Divine Rights of Men, And herealong our fair streams this transplanted libertywill ever flourish, and along this the faireststream it will gather Poetry from its Legends^Hope from its History, and a Consciousness ofGrod from its APPENDIX. Many of the names of the towns and citiesalong the Hudson at once suggest their give the derivation and signification ofsome of the most important. Brooklyn—BreuJcelen, Broken-land^ from theunevenness of the surrounding country. The old Dutch name of Westchester wasVreedlandtj Peace-land. Haverstraw^ some say a ^ place of straw ;^others^ ^^ out of straw/ Stony Point retains its Dutch name^ trans-lated. ^ The Donder Bergh and the Kills of JansPeek retain their Dutch names. The promon-tory just above, called Antonies Neus, corrupted 11 APPENDIX. into St. Anthonys Nose, was named after An-- tony de Hooge, Secretary of the Colony of Kens-selaerwyck. Newburgh, settled by the Palatines, signi-fying New Town, Yonkers, Yonk-lierr^ named after the younglord or young sir of the Phillipsie manor. Sing Sing, called from the Chinese city TsingTsing^ a name given to the place by a merchantwho traded with China. Poughkeepsie, Indian name Apoke
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