The latter have a grand and wild aspect when the stream is brimful, after heavy rains and the melting of snows.

IPPEB CiSCiDts, B11TI.RMILK I ILL

On the rough plain above is the village of Buttermilk Fall, containing over three hundred inhabitants. The country around is exceedingly rough and picturesque, especially in the direction of Fort Montgomery, three or four miles below ;' while on the brow of the high river bank near, there are some pleasant summer residences. Among these was the dwelling of Mr. Bigelow, then the associate of Mr. Bryant, the poet, in

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the ownership and conduct of the New York Evening Post, but since appointed, first the Secretaiy of the American Legation at tlie French Court, in 1861, and afterward Minister Plenipotentiary at the same Court. Hei-e on the smooth faces of the rocks might be seen a desecration which deserves the severest reprobation. All through the Highlands, on the lino of the Hudson Eiver Railway, the same offence met the eye. We refer to the occupation of smooth rocks by great staring letters, announcing the fact that one shopkeeper in New York his " Old London

Dock Gin" for sale, and that another sells " Paphian Lotion for beautifying the Hair." "VYe protest, in the name of every person of taste Avho travels upon the river and the road, against any disfiguring of the picturesque scenery of the Hudson Highlands, by making the out-cropping rocks of the grand old hills play the part of those itinerants who walk the streets of New York with enormous placards on their backs, advertising wares for sale ; and the Legislature of the State of New York, which, in I8G0, made such disfiguration a penal oifence, deserves high praise.