The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . iUM HILL. Charity, of the Convent and Academy of Mount St. Viueent. This insti-tution was founded in 1847, and the academy was in 105th Street, betweenthe Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York. It is devoted to the instruction 366 THE HUDSON. of young ladies. The community, numbering about two hundred Sistersat the time of my visit, was scattered. Some were at Font Hill, andothers were at different places in the city and neighbourhood. The wholewere under the general direction of Mother Superior Mary Angela Font Hill they erected an extensive
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . iUM HILL. Charity, of the Convent and Academy of Mount St. Viueent. This insti-tution was founded in 1847, and the academy was in 105th Street, betweenthe Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York. It is devoted to the instruction 366 THE HUDSON. of young ladies. The community, numbering about two hundred Sistersat the time of my visit, was scattered. Some were at Font Hill, andothers were at different places in the city and neighbourhood. The wholewere under the general direction of Mother Superior Mary Angela Font Hill they erected an extensive and elegant pile of buildings, ofwhich they took possession, and wherein they opened a schcol, on the. MOINT ST. VIKCEXT ist of September, 1859. It was much enlarged in i860. They had, in1860, about one hundred and fifty pupils, all boarders, to whom wasoffered the opportunity of acquiring a thorough education. The chaplainof the institution occupies the castle. Two miles and a-half below Font Hill, or Mount St. Vincent, is Spytden Duyvel Creek, at the hearl of York or Manhattan Island. This is a THE HUDSON. 367 narrow stream, winding through a little tortuous valley for a mile ormore, and connecting, at Kingsbridge, with the Harlem River, thefirst formed by the inflowing of the tide waters of the Hudson, andthe last by the waters of the East Eivcr. At ebb-tide the currentspart at Kingsbridge. The view from the mouth of the Spyt denDuyvel, over which the Hudson River Railway passes, looking either
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