VI -- On the Jersey Shore VII Early Settlers of the Hudson Valley 139 VIII-- The Passing of the White Wings . 100 IX Fulton and the Hudson River Steamhoat 41 X -- Riverside to In wood XI -- The Island and the River in 1776

XII -Forts Washington and Lee 181

XIII ^From Spuyten Duyvil to Yonkers XIV-- Spectres of the Tappan Zee . 211289

XV -- In the Land of Irving . 226

XVI-- Literary Associations of the Hudson 246

XVII-- Around Haverstraw Bay

XVIII-- The Storming of Stony Point XIX -- At the Gate of the Highlands

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XX -- The Spirit of '76 326 XXI -- A Voyage up the ItIudson in 1769 . 344 XXII -- Among the Hills 357 XXIII -- West Point 370

XXIV -- The Fisher's Reach .... 389 XXV- FiSHKILL TO POUGHKEEPSIE . . . 416

XXX -- Nantucket Quakers and Dutch Fighters . . . » . . 503 XXXI -An Old Dutch Tchvn . . . .51^ XXXII Above Tide-Water .... 55° Index 573

llustrations Pae^c

The " Half Moon" oti the Hudson, rdog 15 Frojitispiccc From the paiiUiw^ by L. W. SciiTcy.

Land iII g of Hudson 3 Portrait of Hudson 5 2g Early \^icu' of Wcchawkcn . The Month of Spuytoi Dnyvil Creek in Early Days Earliest Map of the City A Bit of Old Neiv York 20

Before the Day of Skyscrapers 21

The House that icas Built for Washington The Staten Lsland Ferry and Barge Office (about nS33) 33 Peaks of the Manhattan Range The City that Hides Majihattan . TJie Barge Office and the Bay Cover noCs Island from Battery Park 43 A Tow Going out to Sea 53