At the Oak Hill station the tourist upon the railway will leave it for a trip to the Ivatzbergs before him, upon which may be seen, at the distance of eight miles in an air line, the "Mountain House," the famous resort for hundreds of people who escape from the dust of cities during the heat of summer, Tlie river is crossed on a steam ferry-boat, and good omnibuses convey travellers from it to the pleasant village of Katz-KiU,

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which lies upon a slope on the left bank of the stream bearing the same name, less than half a mile from its mouth. At the village, conveyances are ready at all times to take the tourist to the Mountain House, twelve miles distant by the road, which passes throxigh a picturesque and highly cultivated country, to the foot of the mountain. Before makiug this

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tour, however, the traveller should linger awhile on the banks of the Katz-Kill, from the Hudson a few miles into the country, for there may be seen, from different points of view, some of the most charming scenery in the world. Every turn in the road, every bend in the stream, presents

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new and attractive pictures, remarkable for beauty and diversity in outline, cdour, and aerial perspective. The solemn Katzbergs, sublime in form, and mysterious in their dim, incomprehensible, and ever-changing aspect, almost always form a prominent feature in the landscape. In the midst of this scenery. Cole, the eminent painter, loved to linger when the shadows of the early morning were projected towards the mountqjn, then bathed in purple mists ; or at evening, when these lofty hills, then dark and awful, cast their deep shadows over more than half the country below, between their bases and the river.