And hark ! as it comes sighing through the grove, The exhausted gale a spirit there awakes, That wild and melancholy music makes.
Circuitous paths lead to the landing, while the table land to the east is heavily bordered with the ash, maple, cedar and towering oak.
The hotel is under the management of Mr. Y. Truesdale.
Hudson, the discoverer of the North River, appears to have been much struck with the first sight of this high and mountainous region.
"It appears from his journal," says Moulton, "that he was not inattentive to the rapid and astonishing elevation of a district of country which, in the course of less than sixty miles, increases from a few feet above the water level* to the lofty height of fifteen hundred feet.'' Sailing leisurely, he had full opportunity to contrast the appearances of the opposite shores. On the left he had the sublime prospect of the pallisado rocks, whose dark columnar front, like a towering battlement, witli here and there a projection like the salient angle of a bastion, presented perpendicular elevations from three to five hundred feet, and, ranging more than thirty miles uninterrupted, (except by the valley of the Nyack,) it at last exhibited an altitude of nearly seven hundred feet,<= and then vanished from his sight on the remote, but still more elevated range of the High Tourn and Tourn Mountains. On the right he beheld a comparatively low but undulating border, which, in the luxuriance of autumnal foliage, afforded a striking contrast and a pleasing relief as he turned from the sublimity and barrenness of the opposite cliffs. Onward he perceived the river in its first course of thirty miles, very gradually widening until it suddenly presented the broad expanse of a bay (' Tappaanse Zee.') Then