. The Catskill Mountains .. . ing Indianchief, and six leading men of his tribe had gathered for the pur-pose. Various trinkets and trifles of stupendous value in theeyes of the noted red men, were given them, and the title, withits wonderful hieroglyphics, was passed. Soon after that theaboriginal owners began to disappear, retreating to the Adiron-dack wilderness and the western part of the State. Their suc-cessors in the Catskills do not seem to have left many importantrecords of their occupancy which can be relied upon. But inplace of such history we are endowed with a wealth of Indianlore
. The Catskill Mountains .. . ing Indianchief, and six leading men of his tribe had gathered for the pur-pose. Various trinkets and trifles of stupendous value in theeyes of the noted red men, were given them, and the title, withits wonderful hieroglyphics, was passed. Soon after that theaboriginal owners began to disappear, retreating to the Adiron-dack wilderness and the western part of the State. Their suc-cessors in the Catskills do not seem to have left many importantrecords of their occupancy which can be relied upon. But inplace of such history we are endowed with a wealth of Indianlore and Dutch tradition which have made the region an en-chanted shadow-land of legend and romance. Queen of all lovely rivers, lustrous queenOf flowing waters in our sweet new lands,Rippling through sunlight to the ocean a smiling valley, and betweenRomantic shores of silvery summer green ;Memorial of wild days and savage bands,Singing the patient deeds of patriotic hands,Crooning of golden glorious years
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