It is impossible to give in pictures so necessarily small as are those which illustrate this Volume, an adequate idea of the beauty and grandeur of the scenery of the Hudson River ; so, in the choice of subjects, the judgment was governed more by considerations of utility than of mere artistic taste. Only such objects have been delineated and described as bore relations to the history, traditions, and business life of the river here celebrated, whose course, from the Wilderness to the Sea, measures a distance of full three himdred miles.

The reader will bear in mind that when the present tense is used, allusion is made to the beginning of the year 1866, at which time the revision of these sketches was made.

B. J. L.

PoUGHKKEPSlE, N.Y., March, 1866.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Initial Letter-- The Cardinal Flower a

Moosehead

A Lodge in the Wilderness...

Eaquette River

Tenants of the Upper Hudson Forests

Camp Helena

Sabattis

Hendrick Spring

Swamp Travel

Catlin Lake

First Clearing on the Hudson i

First Saw-Mill on the Hudson

Elephant Island

Lumber Dam and Sluice

Initial Letter-- The Wayside Fountain Eapids at the Head of Harris's Lake

Sandford Lake

The Iron Dam

Adirondack Village

Departure for Tahawus

First Bridge over the Hudson

Bark Cabin at Calamity Pond

Henderson's Monument

Fall in the Opalescent Eiver

Climbing Tahawus

Spring on the Peak of Tahawus

Hospice on the Peak of Tahawus

Initial Letter-- A Sap Trough

The Loon

Lake Golden

Outlet of Henderson Lake

Trees on Boulders