Murderer's (Moodna) Creek--By the Butter Hill 399 380 Across the Hudson from Cornwall 403 h^roni a ilraieinii bv \V. 'J. ]Vi!.'<oii. Ncivburgh as Seen from Ftshkill and Coldspring Road 4og

The Cantilever Bridge at Poughkccpsie . 419 Tomkins's Cove ...... 423 Ice-boat Fleet near Hyde Park 433

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Mciidiiii^ Wis at (larn'soii . Mooiiliglit 0)1 llic Hudson 445 River Sccjic, Catskill . 453 sum). "J. 11'. C'cisilcar, /'Vjy. J^'rom the Slihirt L'iilU\th>n. Lenox Library. (By pernii:

River Scejie near Kingston . From a ilraieiiiL:, by the author.

Donni the River, from Loicer Red Hook 475 The Montgomery House at Annandale . Woodland Brook near Catskill .... 487 L'roiii the paiiilnii^ by A. H. Durand, i)i the Leimx Library. (By penuis.'siou) .

A Glimpse of tJie Catskills, from Saugerties . 497 Viezv of Hudson City and the Catskill Mountains . 5(^5 L'roii: an ohl print.

Winter 'I\eiliglit, near Albany .... 517 From a paintine l\v (i. .1. Bont^hton in Lenox Library. (By permi.s.sion.)

T/a// Rensselaer Manor-House, lydj 525 Plan of Albany, i6gj . Schuyler Mansion, iy6o Seal of Albany 543

Along the River beloiv Troy . 532 Looking doivn River, near Troy 540 On the Hudson above Troy . 555 From an ohl print.

Congress Spring in 1820 559 550 The Rapids below Glens Falls 552

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On the River between Glens [''alls and Sandy Hill I'l-oni a draicnii^ by \V . 7. Wilson.

The Bridge at (ilens Falls . . . . . j6q A Logjam on the Upper Hudson . . . jyo Sectional Map of the Hudson River In separate pocket