. The Palisades of the Hudson : their formation, tradition, romance, historical associations, natural wonders and preservation. ber 12th, 1609, and beheld a strange vessel inthe river. Slowly she drifted in upon the flood tide, a thing ofwonder to the savages. Squaws and braves gazed in silentamazement upon the ship of the white man. From her loftydeck a sturdy Englishman scanned for the first time the boldrocks of the Palisades, and the green, wooded island opposite,daring to hope he had found the long-sought gateway to theNortheast Passage, wondering whether the dream of his life was BpHli 1
. The Palisades of the Hudson : their formation, tradition, romance, historical associations, natural wonders and preservation. ber 12th, 1609, and beheld a strange vessel inthe river. Slowly she drifted in upon the flood tide, a thing ofwonder to the savages. Squaws and braves gazed in silentamazement upon the ship of the white man. From her loftydeck a sturdy Englishman scanned for the first time the boldrocks of the Palisades, and the green, wooded island opposite,daring to hope he had found the long-sought gateway to theNortheast Passage, wondering whether the dream of his life was BpHli 1|V^# about to be realized. There was little or no wind onthe river that day, and the last raysof the setting sun, sinking behind thePalisades, left the Half-Moonabreast of Indian Head, the highestelevation of the ridge, and almost di-rectly opposite the present village ofHastings. Here was lowered the firstanchor in the waters of the Ma-hl-can-Ittuck River, as the local In-dians called the Hudson. Peace-fully the little ship rested thatnight under the shelter of Wee-awk-e n , rocks that look like trees a jutting 8 The Palisades of the Hudson as the Indians termed the Palisades. At daybreak tiny columnsof blue smoke arose from the camps of the Red Men. Scoresof black eyes peered riverward from behind the thick made of single hollowed trees began to glide out fromthe bank. TEST OF NEW WORLD HOSPITALITY. This morning, wrote Master Robert Juet, who keptHudsons journal, at our first rode in the river there cameeight and twentie canoes full of men, women and children to be-tray us, but we saw their intent and suffered none of them tocome aboard of us. Juet was evidently mistaken in his first impression of thevisitors intentions for he goes on to add: They brought withthem oysters and beans whereof we bought some. They havegreat tobacco pipes of yellow copper and pots of earth to dressetheir meate in. In this connection it may be of interest to the present gen
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