A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . and nearly wrecked ; and thenwe were becalmed above Poughkeepsie for two days,and it took us just a week to make the voyage. I de-clare, I never see a schooner but it gives me a touch ofsea-sickness. I wished afterwards, she added, inno-cently, that we had got out and walked. And justto think that now the steamboats advertise to carryyou to Albany for a shilling! She has told me often of her voyage up the Hud- A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 35 son, when the country was young. The sloop packetstarted from a wharf near
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . and nearly wrecked ; and thenwe were becalmed above Poughkeepsie for two days,and it took us just a week to make the voyage. I de-clare, I never see a schooner but it gives me a touch ofsea-sickness. I wished afterwards, she added, inno-cently, that we had got out and walked. And justto think that now the steamboats advertise to carryyou to Albany for a shilling! She has told me often of her voyage up the Hud- A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 35 son, when the country was young. The sloop packetstarted from a wharf near the Battery. It sailed pastthe blooming gardens of Greenwich Village; by thefrowning walls of the State prison at the foot of AmosStreet ; beyond the green fields that stretched outuntil the pretty little hamlet of Chelsea was reached,where the gray turrets of the Episcopal Seminarywere at that time going up ; and then swept by anunbroken succession of rural villas and manors up tothe heights named in honor of Fort Washington, andthence looked back upon historic Kings Bridge, the. KING S BRIDGE seething waters of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and theample possessions of the Phillipse family and the VanCortlandts. That was a wonderfully exciting time when the rivalsteamboats advertised to carry passengers to Albanyfor a shilling, and an army of runners pervaded thestreets and thronged the wharves, pulling and haulingat the persons and baggage of the unhappy was rife on the river, and there was always atinge of excitement in the voyage, through the proba-bility of a boiler explosion or a fire. The wreck of theSwallow and the burning of the Henry Clay are among 36 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK the memories of a day in which the names of the steamchppers of the Hudson (some of which still drag flo-tillas of canal-boats through the waters on which theyonce walked as queens) were as well known as the pres-ent favorites of the race-tracks. There was a queer genius in my regiment name
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