The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . UnitedStates senator, the author of the penal code of the State of Louisiana, andambassador to France. The elegant mansion was built by the widow ofGeneral Eichard Montgomery, a companion-in-arms of Wolfe when hefell at Quebec, and who perished under the walls of that city at the headof a storming party of Eepublicans on the 31st of December, was one of the noblest and bravest men of his age. Whenhe gave his young wife a parting kiss at the house of General Schuyler, 174 THE HUDSON. at Saratoga, and hastened to join that officer at T
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . UnitedStates senator, the author of the penal code of the State of Louisiana, andambassador to France. The elegant mansion was built by the widow ofGeneral Eichard Montgomery, a companion-in-arms of Wolfe when hefell at Quebec, and who perished under the walls of that city at the headof a storming party of Eepublicans on the 31st of December, was one of the noblest and bravest men of his age. Whenhe gave his young wife a parting kiss at the house of General Schuyler, 174 THE HUDSON. at Saratoga, and hastened to join that officer at Ticonderoga, in thecampaign that proved fatal to hira, he said, You shall never blush foryour Montgomery. Gallantly did he vindicate that pledge. And whenhis virtues were extolled by Barre, Burke, and others in the Britishparliament, Lord Korth exclaimed, Curse on his virtues ; he has undone his country. The wife of Montgomery was a sister of Chancellor Livingston. Withample pecuniary means and good taste at command, she built this mansion,. MONTGOMERY PLACE. and there spent fifty years of widowhood, childless, but cheerful. Themansion and its 400 acres passed into the possession of her brotherEdward, and there, as we have observed, members of his family now all the fine estates along this portion of the Hudson, this is said to bethe most perfect in its beauty and arrangements. Waterfalls, picturesquebridges, romantic glens, groves, a magnificent park, one of the mostbeautiful of the ornamental gardens in this country, and views of the riverand mountains, unsurpassed, render Montgomery Place a retreat to becoveted, even by the most favoured of fortune. THE HUDSON. 175 Four miles by the railway below Tivoli is the Barrytown Station, orLower Eed Hook Landing. The villages of Upper and Lower Eed Hook,like most of the early towns along the Hudson, lie back from the and Barrytown are their respective ports. A short distance belowthe latter, connected by a windi
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