With cleanly streets, and the public parks beautified with the fountains which send forth cooling and refreshing vapours upon the air, the citizens will forget to leave the city during the warm months of summer, and the sea-shore, the mountain-tops, and watering-places, will fancy their beauty has faded, since they cease to be visited. The foreigner who visits this country will find the Croton Aqueduct an interesting specimen of our public works, and will be pleased with a pedestrian tour along the line of work

to the Fountain Reservoir among the hills of the Croton. Besides becoming acquainted with the important features of the work, he may enjoy much that is beautiful in American scenery. In his course along the Aqueduct he may see the majestic palisades which for a distance wall the right bank of the Hudson ; he may view the Tappan and Haverstraw bays with their ever-varying scenery, and the dark gorge where the Hudson emerges from the Highlands with its white bosom. Along the Aqueduct there are also many picturesque scenes where the mountain stream leaps among the rocks in the deep ravine which guides its course to the Hudson.

The country is interesting also from the associations with which it has been invested by the pen of our novelists. The

region of the Croton where the Fountain Reservoir is

formed, is a part of the district where the scene of the " Tale of the Neutral Ground" is laid ; and one may fancy there the figure of Harvey Birch, beneath his pondrous pack, casting a shadow at night along the moon-lit slopes. Leaving the valley of the Croton we come out upon the Hudson at the head of the "great waters of the Tappan Zee," beyond which the early inhabitants of New-Amsterdam dared not to voyage without first " settling their family affairs, and making their wills." As we approach Tarrytown we find the localities which were pictured in the " Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and easily recognize the Old Dutch Church near which the affrighted Ichabod Crane was so sadly unhorsed by the headless Hessian.