It was a -welcome and delightful invitation to the fields and waters, and I hastened to the lower borders of the Highland region to resume my pen and pencil sketches of the Hudson from the wilderness to the sea.

The air was as balmy as May on the evening of my amval at Sing Sing, on the eastern bank of the Hudson, where the State of New York has a large penitentiary for men and women. I strolled up the steep and winding street to the heart of the village, and took lodgings for the

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niglit. The sun was yet two honrs above the horizon. 1 wont out immediately upon a short tour of observation, and found ample compensation for the toil occasioned by the hilly pathways traversed.

Sing Sing is a very pleasant village, of almost four thousand inhabitants. It lies upon a rudely broken slope of hills, that rise about one hundred and eighty feet above the river, and overlook Tappan Bay,--' or Tappaanse Zee, as the early Dutch settlers called an expansion of the Hudson,

* Tap-pan was the name of a Mohepaii tribe that inhabited the eastern shores of the bay.

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extending from Teller's or Croton Point on the north, to the northern bluff of the Palisades near Piermont. The origin of the name is to be found in the word Sint-sinck, the title of a powerful clan of the Mohegan

CROTON AQUEDUCT AT SING SING.

or river Indians, who called this spot Os-sin-ing, from ossin, a stone, and ing, a place -- stony place. A very appropriate name. The land in this vicinity, first parted with by the Indians, was granted to Frederick