. Summer tours via the Michigan central, "The Niagara Falls route" .. . ing. At Hudson, the head of ship navigation, and once an important whahng-port,but now more noted for its iron manufactmes, the river has swollen into greaterproportions, and we gaze upon the stiikingly beautiful panorauia of the CatskillMountains beyond it. Four miles below is Catskill Landing, ths point of depart-ure for the moimtains. Round Top is 3,800 feet high, and only eight or nine milesfrom the Lanchng, whence the httle railway runs to the Kaaterskill hills become more lofty on the opposite side, and mor
. Summer tours via the Michigan central, "The Niagara Falls route" .. . ing. At Hudson, the head of ship navigation, and once an important whahng-port,but now more noted for its iron manufactmes, the river has swollen into greaterproportions, and we gaze upon the stiikingly beautiful panorauia of the CatskillMountains beyond it. Four miles below is Catskill Landing, ths point of depart-ure for the moimtains. Round Top is 3,800 feet high, and only eight or nine milesfrom the Lanchng, whence the httle railway runs to the Kaaterskill hills become more lofty on the opposite side, and more grandly docs theriver flow on between its confines or expand into lake-like bays, bearing on itsbosom a picturesque fleet of steam and sail. The train halts for refreshmentsat Poughkeepsie, half-way from Albany to New York. From the station onesees httle of the city, which is a large and handsome one, built on an elevatedplateau, and possessing eight important educational institutions, one of which,Vassar, is the most noted female college in the world. ,-.^<v=». Albany from Across the Hudson. Fifteen miles below is Fishkill, whence a steam ferry runs to Newburgh, apicturesquely-built city of 18,000 inhabitants on the west shore, where an old, gray,stone mansion, in which Washington had his headquarters, is still below, the broad expanse of Newburgh Bay comes to an end, and we cometo the famed Highlands of the Hudson, entered under the precipices of BeaconHill and Breakneck, with the massive granite crown of Storm King toweringopposite, 1,529 feet above the water. AVe cross Constitution Island near the spot where Arnold and Andre met,and stop a moment at Garrisons (396 miles), the station for West Poifet, oppo-site. For two or three miles, rounding the point above where the river makes ashort turn at right angles, we have had a splencUd view of the great piles ofbuildings that constitute the National Military Academy—its barracks, academichaU, library, obs
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