The community at jS'ew Lebanon is the most perfect of all in its arrangements, and there the hierarchy of the "Millennial Church" reside. Their strange forms

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of -worship, consisting chiefly in singing and dancing ; their quaint costume, their simple manners, their industry and frugality, the perfection of all their industrial operations, their chaste and exemplary lives, and the unsurpassed beauty and picturosqueness of the country in which they \u.'e seated, render a visit to the Shakers of Lebanon a long-to-beremembered event in one's life.

^bout six miles below Hudson is the Oak-Hill Station, opposite the Katz-Kill (Cats-Kill) landing, at the mouth of the Katz-Kill, a clear and beautiful stream that flows down from the hill country of Schoharie County for almost forty miles. It was near here that the Half Moon anchored on the 20th September, 1609, and was detained all the next day on account of the great number of natives who came on board, and had a meny time. Master Juet, one of Hudson's companions, says, in his journal, -- " Our master and his mate determined to trio some of the chiefe men of the countrcy, whether they had any treachcrie in them. So they tooke tliem downe into the cabbin, and gave them so much wine and aqua vitcc that they were all merrie, and one of them had his wife with liim, which sate so modestly, as any of our countrey women would doe in a strange place. In the end, one of them was drunke, which had been aboord of our ship all the time tliat we had beene there : and that was strange to them, for they could not tell how to take it. The canoes and folke went all on shoarc, but some of them came againe, and brought stropes of bcales [wampum, made of the clam-shell] ; some had sixe, seven, eight, nine, ten, and gave him.