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By EDGAR MAYHEW BACON

THe Hudson River from Ocean to Source Historical -- Legendary -- Picturesque 8°. With over loo Illustrations.

Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollo\v iG"". With 23 full-page Illustrations.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Ne-w "VorK London

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Edgar Mayhew Bacon Author of " Chronicles ofTarrytown," etc.

With TOO Illustrations, and with Sectional Map of the Hudson River

G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London Xlbe ikiiichcrbocker press

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Published, November, igo2

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Preface

IN treatino^ of the histor}' and traditions, the men and the manners of the valley of the Hudson Ri\-er, the author has undertaken to ])resent in one coherent work the gist of many volumes and to add such hitherto un])ul)lished material as he has l)een able to discover. From the nature of this boc^k it has not been i^ossible to make the historical narrati\'e continuous, but in treating of separate localities the main events connected with each ha\'e l)een grou])ed, the method of arrangement l)eing to])ical rather than consecutive. A reference to the index may in many cases dis])el an impression that some im])ortant event or i)erson has been neglected or forgotten l^ecause its ]dace in a chronological sccjuence has of necessity been disregarded. In commencing the story with the arriwal of TTenry Hudson, the claims of Verrazani and other early na\-igators have been ignored, not because history disowns them, but for the reason that the record of the river, so far as it is clearlv written, commences with the Half Moon and the first Dutch settlers.