. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . of the continent—the first land to greet thecurious eyes of the stranger, and to cheer the heart of the returning wanderer. Thebeauty of these wooded heights, the charming villas that stud their sides, the grace oftheir undulating lines, give to the traveller prompt assurance that the country he visitsis not only blessed with rare natural beauty, but that art and culture have suita
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . of the continent—the first land to greet thecurious eyes of the stranger, and to cheer the heart of the returning wanderer. Thebeauty of these wooded heights, the charming villas that stud their sides, the grace oftheir undulating lines, give to the traveller prompt assurance that the country he visitsis not only blessed with rare natural beauty, but that art and culture have suitablyadorned it. The delight with which the wearied ocean-voyager greets the shores thatfirst rise upon the horizon has often been described; but, when these shores have a raresylvan beauty that opens hour by hour to view as the vessel draws near—when, insteadof frowning rocks or barren sands, he beholds noble hills clothed to their brows withgreen forests, fields and meadows basking with summer beauty in the sun, cottages nes-tling amid shrubbery, and spires lifting above clustering tree-tops—the picture possesses■J, charm which only he who first beholds it can fully realize. It is such a green para-. THE NEVERSINK HIGHLANDS. 175 dise that the Neversink Hills offer to the gaze of every ocean-wanderer who enters theharbor of New York. These highlands are situated in New Jersey, extending several miles along the coastin a southerly direction. At their feet flows the Shrewsbury River; beyond the riverstretches a narrow strip of sand, upon which the surf of the Atlantic ceaselessly strip or tongue of sand extends northerly into the sea, somewhat beyond the reachof the hills, which, suddenly trending westward, form, in connection with the Hook, whatis known as Sandy-Hook Bay. The ship entering from the sea stretches past this point
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