More than thirty thousand tons of ice are annually shipped from this single depot. Ice is an important article of the commerce of the Hudson, from whose surface, also, immense quantities are gathered every winter.

From the high bank above the ice depot, a very fine view of Anthony's Nose and the Sugar Loaf in the distance may be obtained. The latter name the reader will remember as that of the lofty eminence in the rear of the

ANTHO^V'S NOSE AND THE SUGAR LOAF, FROM THE ICE DEPoT.

Beverly House. At West Point and its vicinity it forms a long rauge of mountains, but looking up from the neighbourhood of the Nose, it is a perfect pyramid in form. It is one of the first objects that attract the eye of the voyager, when turning the point of the Nose on entering the Highlands from below. Its form suggested to the practical minds of the Dutch a Sui/cJcer JBroocU -- Sugar Loaf -- and so they named it.

THE HUDSON.

We crossed the river from Lake Sinnipink to Anthony's Nose, through the point of which the Hudson Eiver Railway passes, in a tunnel over two hundred feet in length. This is a lofty rocky promontory, whose summit is almost thirteen hundred feet above the river, and with the jutting point of the Donder Berg, a mile and a half below, gives the Hudson there a double curve, and the appearance of an arm of the sea, terminating at tlie mountains. Such was the opinion of Hendrick Hudson, as he approached this point from below. The true origin of the