accepted authorities. Digitized by Microsoft® Contents CHAPTER I — Introductory ..... II — Two Cities on One Site . Ill — New Buildings and Old . IV — 'Festivals and Pageants . V — ^Along the Manhattan Shore VI — On the Jersey Shore ... VII — Early Settlers of the Hudson Valley VIII — The Passing of the White Wings . IX — Fulton and the Hudson River Steamboat X — Riverside to Inwood XI — The Island and the River in 1776 XII — Forts Washington and Lee XIII — From Spuyten Duyvil to Yonkers XIV — Spectres of the Tappan Zee . XV — In the Land of Irving XVI — Literary Associations of the Hudson XVII — Around Haverstraw Bay XVIII — The Storming of Stony Point I 19 30 41 54 65 87 100 118 139 160 181 193 211 226 246 289 304 XIX — At the Gate of the Highlands . - 313 Digitized by Microsoft® vi Contents CHAPTER PAGE 26 XX — The Spirit of '76 3^ XXI — A Voyage up the Hudson in 1769 . 344 XXII — Among the Hills 357 XXIII— West Point 37° XXIV— The Fisher's Reach . . . .389 XXV — FisHKiLL to Poughkeepsie . . .416 XXVI — Sports and Industries .... 430 XXVII — Rondout and Kingston .... 443 XXVIII — Saugerties and its Neighbours . .471 XXIX — The Catskill Region . . . 486 XXX — Nantucket Quakers and Dutch Fighters . . . . . -503 XXXI— An Old Dutch Town . . . .516 XXXII — Above Tide-Water , . . .550 Index 573 Digitized by Microsoft® Illustrations Page The "Half Moon" on the Hudson, i6og Frontispiece From the painting by L. W. Seavey. Landing of Hudson ...... j Portrait of Hudson ...... 5 Early View of Weehawken ..... 7 The Mouth of Spuyten Duyvil Creek in Early Days 10 Earliest Map of the City . .... 15 A Bit of Old New York 20 Before the Day of Skyscrapers . . . .21 The House that was Built for Washington . . 2g The Stolen Island Ferry and Barge Office {about 1835) 33 Peaks of the Manhattan Range . ... 36 The City that Hides Manhattan . . . . J7 The Barge Office and the Bay . ... 40 Governor's Island from Battery Park . . . 43 A Tow Going out to Sea . .... 53 Digitized by Microsoft® vni Illustrations The Narrows, New York Bay New York Harbour from one of the Skyscrapers Brick Schooner and Shad Fishers, off Fort Lee A Fleet Thronged the River . From an old print. The Sybil's Cave, Hoboken . The Elysian Fields, Hoboken From an old print. An Early View (about 1840) of Haverstraw From, an old print. The Ubiquitous Tug .... From a drawing by the author. Spreading the White Wings . From a drawing by the author. Palisades from the Yellow Rocks, Tappan Zee From, a drawing by the author. Departure of the " Clermont" on her First Voyage " Car of Neptune,'' 1808 "Paragon,'' 181 1 .... "Richmond," 18 ij .... The " North America" and " Albany," i82y-i82g The Modern Flying Dutchman Riverside Drive, Manhattan The Apthorpe Mansion, Bloomingdale . Grant's Tomb, Riverside Drive The Notable Buildings on Harlem Heights, where the Battle was Fought in ijyO Barnard College, on the Site of the Battlefield of Harlem Heights ...... Page 55 60 66 73 79 83 93 lOI log 113 123 12^ 128 I2g 131 135 141 145 149 153 157 Digitized by Microsoft® Illustrations ix Page Burnham's Mansion House, Bloomingdale Road about i8jj .... Under the Palisades The Old Philipse House and Mill, Tarrytojvn Erected about 1684 The Flying Dutchman . Hook Mountain, from Nyack Tappan Zee and the Tarrytown Light Washington House at Tappan High Taur — Point-no-Point and Haverstraw From a drawing by the author. Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow Lookout at Old Quarry, Tarrytown From u. drawing by the author. Idlewild Glen ...... The River and Catskill Mountains, from the Lawn of the Montgomery House, Barrytown . From a drawing by W. J. Wilson. The Verplanck Mansion at Fishkill Landing Undercliff — The Home of the Poet Morris . From, an old print. The River Road, near Coldenham Where the Brooks Met — Idlewild . View South from Sing Sing, about 1848 Croton and Verplanck' s Point and Anthony's Nose from Hill back of Sing Sing . High Taur and the Short Clove — Haverstraw 161 199 205 213 216 218 220 221 233 239 247 251 263 267 275 283 2gi 297 299 Digitized by Microsoft® X Illustrations Page Stony Point and Haver straw, from Verplanck's Point ■ 307 Bird's- Eye View of the Hudson from a Peak