What to see in America . ldvER\>-^- / 80 AVhat to See in America there are Henry Ward Beecher, Peter Cooper, Henry George,Horace Greeley, Elias Howe, in^^entor of the sewing machine,and Morse, inventor of the telegraph. The most thronged of New Yorks seaside resorts is ConeyIsland, south of Brooklyn, at the entrance to the harbor. Itis a strip of sand five miles long, with an average width ofscarcely half a mile, separated from the mainland by alittle creek. The estimated annual number of visitors is10,000,000. More than 100,000 are sometimes there in asingle The Palisades of the Huds
What to see in America . ldvER\>-^- / 80 AVhat to See in America there are Henry Ward Beecher, Peter Cooper, Henry George,Horace Greeley, Elias Howe, in^^entor of the sewing machine,and Morse, inventor of the telegraph. The most thronged of New Yorks seaside resorts is ConeyIsland, south of Brooklyn, at the entrance to the harbor. Itis a strip of sand five miles long, with an average width ofscarcely half a mile, separated from the mainland by alittle creek. The estimated annual number of visitors is10,000,000. More than 100,000 are sometimes there in asingle The Palisades of the Hudson VIII New York State New York, the Empire State, so called because it ranksfirst in the Union in population, manufacturing, commerce,and wealth, takes high rank also for its scenic its area, or on its borders, are the Catskills, theAdirondacks, the Hudson, Lake George and Lake Cham-plain, Niagara, and the Thousand Islands of the St. early as 1524 a Florentine navigator entered NewYork Bay, and he must have gone up the Hudson at leastas far as the Palisades, for he speaks of it as The River ofthe Steep Hills. The Indians called it The Great Riverof the Mountains. The English sea captain to whom theriver owes its name first saw it in 1609, when, in commandof a little Dutch vessel, the Half Moon, he sailed up its broadsalt-water channel, fancying that it might afford a short cutto China. In the days of Dutch dominion it was called theG 81 82 What to See in America
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