America, picturesque and descriptive . fastness. About two miles back from the river, and behindthe city, is Vassar College, the foremost educationalinstitution for Avomen in the world. The splendidbuildings stand in grounds covering two hundredacres, attractively laid out, and the main building,modelled after the Tuileries, with high surmountingdome, is five hundred feet long. From Sunset Hill,their highest eminence, there is a panorama of theHudson for forty miles. This college was the giftof Matthew Vassar, a wealthy Poughkeepsie mer-chant and brewer, of English birth, who desired tomake it
America, picturesque and descriptive . fastness. About two miles back from the river, and behindthe city, is Vassar College, the foremost educationalinstitution for Avomen in the world. The splendidbuildings stand in grounds covering two hundredacres, attractively laid out, and the main building,modelled after the Tuileries, with high surmountingdome, is five hundred feet long. From Sunset Hill,their highest eminence, there is a panorama of theHudson for forty miles. This college was the giftof Matthew Vassar, a wealthy Poughkeepsie mer-chant and brewer, of English birth, who desired tomake it the most complete foundation of its kind, andgave and bequeathed $1,000,000 besides the land,there being over $400,000 expended upon the build-ings. His nephcAvs have since made large additionalgifts. Here is provided a complete mathematical,classical and English education for several hundredfemale students. Its main building is the chiefstructure of Poughkeepsie. There are art galleries,a museum, library and observatory. The museum. lows i CROM ELBOW TO KINGSTON. 177 of American birds is the most complete existing,there is a fine gallery of water-colors, and a collec-tion of ancient weapons and armor, including thehalberd of King Francis I. The founder, having anample fortune and no children, devoted the closingyears of his life to this beneficent work, the collegebeing begun in 1861 and opened in 1865. Helabored assiduously at its development and died athis post of duty. Three years after the opening,when attending the annual meeting of the trustees,while reading his address, he was suddenly strickenwith death. CROM ELBOW TO KINGSTON. Upon the Hudson Rivers Long Reach is thefavorite locality of the winter ice-boat races, thisexhilarating sport in boats on runners speeding overthe ice, before the wind, being much enjoyed. Afew miles above Poughkeepsie the reach comes toan abrupt termination, in the bent and narrow pass,where the cliffs compress the channel and form thecrooked
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