The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . SUGAE LOAF, FROM THE ICE DEIoT. Beverly House. At West Point and its vicinity it forms a long range ofmountains, but looking up from the neighbourhood of the Nose, it is aperfect pyramid in form. It is one of the first objects that attract theeye of the voyager, when turning the point of the Nose on entering theHighlands from below. Its form suggested to the practical minds of theDutch a Suijchr BroocU—Sugar Loaf—and so they named it. 266 THE HUDSON. We crossed the river from Lake Sinnipink to Anthonys Nose, throughthe point of -which the Hudson Riv
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . SUGAE LOAF, FROM THE ICE DEIoT. Beverly House. At West Point and its vicinity it forms a long range ofmountains, but looking up from the neighbourhood of the Nose, it is aperfect pyramid in form. It is one of the first objects that attract theeye of the voyager, when turning the point of the Nose on entering theHighlands from below. Its form suggested to the practical minds of theDutch a Suijchr BroocU—Sugar Loaf—and so they named it. 266 THE HUDSON. We crossed the river from Lake Sinnipink to Anthonys Nose, throughthe point of -which the Hudson River Railway passes, in a tunnel overtwo hundred feet in length. This is a lofty rocky promontory, whosesummit is almost thirteen hundred feet above the river, and with thejutting point of the Donder Berg, a mile and a half below, gives theHudson there a double curve, and the appearance of an arm of the sea,terminating at the mountains. Such was the opinion of HendrickHudson, as he approached this point from below. The true origin of the. TuxxEL AT ANTuoxi s ^?osi;. name of this promontory is unknown. Irving makes the veracioushistorian, Liedrich Knickerbocker, throw light upon the subject:— And now I am going to tell a fact, which I doubt much my readerswill hesitate to believe, but if they do they are welcome not to believe aword in this whole history—for nothing which it contains is more must be known then that the nose of Anthony the trumpeter was of avery lusty size, strutting boldly from his countenance like a mountain ofGolconda, being sumptuously bedecked with rubies and other precious THE HUDSON. 261 stones—the true regalia of a king of good fellows, wliich jolly Baccliusgrants to all who bouse it heartily at the flagon. Now thus it happened,that bright and early in the morning, the good Anthony, having washedhis burly visage, was leaning over the quarter railing of the galley,contemplating it in the glassy wave below. Just at this moment theillustrious
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