eleven propagation houses, and produced more grape and other fruit-plants than all other establishments in the United States combined.

lona is upon the dividing line of temperature. The sea breeze stops here, and its effects are visible upon vegetation. The season is two weeks earlier than at Newburgh, only fourteen miles northward, above the Highlands. It is at the lower entrance to this mountain range. The width of the river between it and Anthony's Nose is only three-eighths of a mile -- less than at any other point below Albany. The water is deep, and the tidal currents are so swift, that this part of the river is called " The Eace."

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Southward from lona, on the western shore of the river, rises the rocky Bonder Berg, or Thunder Mountain, where, in summer, the tempest is often seen brooding. "The captains of the river craft," says Irving, in his legend of '' The Storm- Ship," " talk of a little bulbous-bottomed Dutch goblin, in trunk hose and sugar-loafed hat, with a speaking-trumpet in his hand, which, they say, keeps the Bonder Berg. They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst of the turmoil.

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giving orders in Low Dutch, for the piping up of a fresh gust of wind, or the rattling off of another thunder-clap. That sometimes he has been seen surrounded by a crew of little imps, in broad breeches and short doublets, tumbling head over heels in tlie rack and mist, and playing a thousand gambols in the air, or buzzing like a swarm of flies about Anthony's Nose; and that, at such times, tlic hurry-scurry of the storm was always greatest. One time a sloop, in passing by the Donder Berg, was overtaken by a