A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ; of aesthetic interiors and of old-fashionedwindow-seats, in which Continental soldier and Hes-sian hireling alternately lounged; of lake and creek,and highland and meadow; of mounted policemenand letter-boxes and steam fire-engines ; of fields andhills that have not changed their contour since PeterStuyvesants solid men-at-arms marched over them,and King George allotted their fertile acres to hisliege subjects. It is a land, too, that lies within the A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 537 city limits, and I, Felix Oldb
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ; of aesthetic interiors and of old-fashionedwindow-seats, in which Continental soldier and Hes-sian hireling alternately lounged; of lake and creek,and highland and meadow; of mounted policemenand letter-boxes and steam fire-engines ; of fields andhills that have not changed their contour since PeterStuyvesants solid men-at-arms marched over them,and King George allotted their fertile acres to hisliege subjects. It is a land, too, that lies within the A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 537 city limits, and I, Felix Oldboy, wearied of beholdingonly that which modern hands had improved out ofall recollection, yearned for a leisure Sunday underoaks and chestnuts in city woods, which should recallthe days of fishing in Sunfish Pond on BeekmanHill, and of gathering autumn leaves on the Bloom-ingdale Road, that used to stretch from Union Squareto Kingsbridge in an unbroken panorama of ruralloveliness. There is nothing more beautiful in the way of land-scape than that which greets the eye where Spuyten. CONFLUENCE OK SPUYTEN DUYVIL CREEK AND THE HUDSON 338 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Duyvil Creek joins its waters to the Hudson — thelake-Hke rivers overlooked by wooded heights on ei-ther side, while beyond the Palisades rise abruptly intheir grandeur, and distant hills to the east completea picture worthy of the pencil of Claude. At Kings-bridge, too, there is much pastoral loveliness. Thesilver thread of Tibbetts Brook (Mosholu, in the Ind-ian tongue) wanders up through the vale of Yonkers,with frowning ridges on one side, and on the othermeadows and orchards, over which hills crowned withthe green of ancient forest trees stand sentinel. Onecan walk in almost any direction and soon be able tofancy himself living in the times of long ago, or any-where else save within the municipal boundaries ofthe chief city of the New World. It is fortunate forfuture generations that much of this landscape loveli-ness
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