The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . Fort had ascended that winding mountain road many times before, andlistened to the echoes of the sweet bugle, or the deeper voices of themorning and evening gun at the Point. ISow we were invited by ashady path, and a desire for novelty, from the road between Forts Webband Putnam, into the deep rocky gorge between Mount Independence and THE HUDSON. 223 the more lofty Eedoubt Hill, to the rear of the old fortress, where it wearsthe appearance of a ruined castle upon a mountain crag. The afternoonsun was falling full upon the mouldering ruin
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . Fort had ascended that winding mountain road many times before, andlistened to the echoes of the sweet bugle, or the deeper voices of themorning and evening gun at the Point. ISow we were invited by ashady path, and a desire for novelty, from the road between Forts Webband Putnam, into the deep rocky gorge between Mount Independence and THE HUDSON. 223 the more lofty Eedoubt Hill, to the rear of the old fortress, where it wearsthe appearance of a ruined castle upon a mountain crag. The afternoonsun was falling full upon the mouldering ruin, and the chaotic mass of rocksbeneath it; while the clear blue sky and white clouds presented thewhole group, with accompanying evergreens, in the boldest our way back, by another but more difficult path, along the footof the steep accli\ity, we soon stood upon the broken walls of FortPutnam, 500 feet above the river, with a scene before ns of unsurpassedinterest and beauty, viewed in the soft light of the evening sun. At our. POINT, FROM THE CEMETERY. feet lay the promontory of West Point, with its Military Academy, thequarters of the officers and the cadets, and other buildings of theinstitution. To the left lay Constitution Island, from a point of which,where a ruined wall now stands, to the oj)posite shore of the main, amassive iron chain was laid upon floating timbers by the Americans, atthe middle of the old war for independence. Beyond the island arose thesmoke of the furnaces and forges, the spires, and the roofs of Cold the left loomed up the lofty Mount Taurus, vulgarly called BullHill, at whose base, in the shadow of a towering wall of rock, and in the 224 THE HUDSON. midst of grand old trees, nestles Under Cliff, then the home of Morris,whose songs have delighted thousands in hoth hemispheres. On theextreme left arose old Cro Nest; and over its right shoulder lay therugged range of Break JSTeck, dipping to the river sufficiently to
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