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Home / Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. / Passage

The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea

Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. 252 words

That lake is a beautiful sheet of water, and along the dark, sluggish river, above the rapids at its head, we saw the cardinal flower upon the banks, and the rich moose-head ••' in the water, in great abundance.

* This, in the books, is called Pickerel Weed (Pontederia cordata of LiniiiEUs), but Ihe guides call it moose-head. The stem is stout and cylindrical, and bears a spear-shaped leaf, somewhat cordate at the base. The flowers, which appear in July and August, are composed of dense spikes, of a rich blue colour. A picture of the moose-head is seen in the water beneath the initial letter at the head of Chapter I.

THE HUDSON.

The rapids at the head of Harris's Lake arc very picturesque. Looking up from them, Goodenow Mountain is seen in the distance, and still more remote arc glimpses of the "Windfall range. "We passed the rapids upon boulders, and then voyaged down to the confluence of the two streams just mentioned. From a rough rocky bluff a mile below that point, we obtained a distant view of three of the higher peaks of the Adirondacks -- Tahawus or Mount Marcy, Mount Golden, and Mount M'Intyre. We returned at ' evening beneath a canopy of magnificent clouds ; aud that night was made strangely luminous by one of the most

HVllUo Ar IHL HEAD OF H\RK1S'S LAKE.

splendid displays of the Aurora Eorcalis ever seen upon the continent. It was observed as far south as Charleston, in South Carolina.

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