The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . the idea of an enormous crows nest. By some the signal highsummit above the Plug Cliff is called Cro INest; and it is in allusion tothat lofty hill that Morris, its neighbour over the way, wrote— Where Hudsons waves oer silvery sandsWinds tlnoufth the Iiills afar,And Cro Kest like a monarch stands,Crowned with a single star. CHAPTER XII. r^ S vre passed the foot of Cro Nest, we caught pleasantV^ glimpses of West Point, where the government ofthe United States has a military school, and in afew moments the whole outline of the promontoryand the grand
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . the idea of an enormous crows nest. By some the signal highsummit above the Plug Cliff is called Cro INest; and it is in allusion tothat lofty hill that Morris, its neighbour over the way, wrote— Where Hudsons waves oer silvery sandsWinds tlnoufth the Iiills afar,And Cro Kest like a monarch stands,Crowned with a single star. CHAPTER XII. r^ S vre passed the foot of Cro Nest, we caught pleasantV^ glimpses of West Point, where the government ofthe United States has a military school, and in afew moments the whole outline of the promontoryand the grand ranges of hills around and beyond it,was in full view. \N^e landed in a sheltered cove alittle above Camp Town, the station of UnitedStates troops and other residents at the Point, and climbed a very steephill to the Cemetery upon its broad and level summit, more than aliundred feet above the river. It is a shaded, quiet, beautiful retreat,consecrated to the repose of the dead, and having thoughtful visitors atall hours on pleasant There, side by side, the dark green cedars sentries watching by that of death ;There, like an armys tents, with snow-white lustre,The grave-stones gleam beneath. Few are the graves, for here no populcus cityFeeds, with its mjTiad lives, the hungrj Fate ;While hourly funerals, led by giief or through the open gate. Here sleep brave men, who, in the deadly for their country, and their life-blood poured;Above whose dust she carves the deathless laurel,Wreathing tlie victors sword. And here the young cadet, in manly beauly. Borne from the tents which skirt those rocky from lifes daily drill and perilous dutyTo these unbroken ranks The most conspicuous object in the Cemetery is the Cadets Monument,situated at the eastern angle. It is a short column, of castle form,composed of light brown hewn stone, surmounted by military emblems THE HUDSON. 221 and a foliated memorial iirn, wrought from
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