The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . iththe Hudson sweeping through it with rapid current. The suns last rayshad loft that valley, and the shadows were deepening along the waters aswe descended to their margin. Twilight was drawing its delicate veilover the face of nature when we reached the plain just mentioned, andthe night had closed in when we arrived at the village of Glens had hoped to reach there in time to visit the State Dam and the THE HUDSON. 65 Great Boom, which span the Hudson at separate points, a few milesabove the falls, but were compelled to forego that pleasu
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . iththe Hudson sweeping through it with rapid current. The suns last rayshad loft that valley, and the shadows were deepening along the waters aswe descended to their margin. Twilight was drawing its delicate veilover the face of nature when we reached the plain just mentioned, andthe night had closed in when we arrived at the village of Glens had hoped to reach there in time to visit the State Dam and the THE HUDSON. 65 Great Boom, which span the Hudson at separate points, a few milesabove the falls, but were compelled to forego that pleasure until were now fairly out of the wilderness in which the Hudson rises,and through which it flows for a hundred miles ; and here our little partywas broken by the departure of Mr. Buckingham for home. Mrs. Lossingand myself lingered at Glens Tails and at Fort Edward, five miles below,a day or two longer, for the purpose of visiting objects of interest in theirvicinity, a description of which will be given as we proceed with our. notes. A brief notice of the State Dam and Great Boom, just mentioned,seems necessary. The dam was about two and a-half miles above Glens Falls. It hadbeen constructed about fifteen years before, to furnish water for the feederof the canal which connects the Hudson river and Lake Champlain. Itwas sixteen hundred feet in length; and the mills near it have attracteda population sufiicicnt to constitute quite a \illage, named State two miles above this dyke was the Great Boom, thrown across theriver for the purpose of catching all the logs that come floating fromabove. It was made of heavy, hewn timbers, four of them bolted together K 66 THE HUDSON. raft-wise. The ends of the groups were conuected by chains, whichworked over friction rollers, to allow the boom to accommodate itself tothe motion of the water. Each end of the boom was secured to a heavyabutment by chains; and above it were strong triangular structures tobreak the ice,
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