The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . externally and internally, is doubtless superior to any other dwelling onthe banks of the Hudson. The grounds about it are laid out with muchtaste, and exhibit many delightful landscape effects. Dobbss Ferry, a considerable village, twenty-two miles from NewYork, was a place of some note a century ago; but the town has beenmostly built within the last fifteen years. The Indian name was Wocc- 356 THE HUDSON. ques-guck, signifying the place of the Bark Kettle. Its present name isfrom Dobbs, a Swede from the Delaware, one of the earliest settlers onPhi
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . externally and internally, is doubtless superior to any other dwelling onthe banks of the Hudson. The grounds about it are laid out with muchtaste, and exhibit many delightful landscape effects. Dobbss Ferry, a considerable village, twenty-two miles from NewYork, was a place of some note a century ago; but the town has beenmostly built within the last fifteen years. The Indian name was Wocc- 356 THE HUDSON. ques-guck, signifying the place of the Bark Kettle. Its present name isfrom Dobbs, a Swede from the Delaware, one of the earliest settlers onPhiUpses Manor. The village is seated pleasantly on the river front ofthe Greenburgh Hills, and is the place of summer residence for many NewYork families. Here active and important military operations occurredduring the war for independence. There was no fighting here, but in themovement of armies it was an important point. Upon the high bank, alittle south-east from the railway station, a redoubt was built by the. VIEW AX llOBliSd FEEEi. .Imericans at an early period of the war. From near that spot our littlesketch was taken, whicli included the long pier at iermont, the villageof Nyack, and the range of hills just below Haverstraw, off which theVulture lay, and at the foot of which Arnold and Andre met. Severalother redoubts were cast up in this vicinity; these commanded the ferryto Paramus, afterwards Snedens Landing, and now Rockland. Near Dobbss Ferry the British rendezvoued, after the battle at WhitePlains, in October, 1776; and at Hastings, a mile below, a British forceof six thousand men, under Lord Cornwallis, crossed the river to Paramus, THE HUDSON. 357 marched to the attack at Fort Lee, and then pursued the flying Americansunder Washington across jSTew Jersey to the Delaware river. Here, in1777, a division of the American army, under General Lincoln, wasencamped ; and here was the spot first appointed as the meeting-place ofAndre and Arnold. Circumstances prevented th
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