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Home / Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. / Passage

The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea

Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. 258 words

Upon one of these, near the centre, we read : --

WASHINGTON,

SON OF

WILLIAM AND

SAEAH S. IRVING,

DIED

NOV. 28, 1859, AGED 76 YEARS 7 MO. J AND 25 DAYS. '

This is the grave of the immortal Geoffrey Crayon I ^' Upon it lie

* 111 tlie Episcopal Church at Tarrylowii, ui wliicli Jlr. Irving wiis a coinniunicaiit for many years, a small marble tablet has been placed by the vestry, with an appropriate inscription to his memory.

THE HUDSON.

•wreaths of •withered flowers, -which have been killed by frosts, and buried by drifts of lately departed snow. These -will not long remain, for all summer long fresh, and fragrant ones arc lai 1 upon that honoured grave

by fair hands that pluck them from many a neighbouring garden. Here, at all times, these sweet tributes of affection may be seen, -when the trees are in leaf.

THE HUDSON. 325

This lovely burial spot, from wliich may bo scon Sleepy Hollow, the ancient church, the sparkling waters of the ro-can-fe-co, spreading out into a little lake above tlie picturesque old dam at the mill of Castle Philipse, Sleepy Hollow Haven, Tappan Bay and all its beautiful surroundings, was chosen long ago by the illustrious author of tlie "Sketch-Book," as his final resting-place. Forty years ago, in Birmingham, three thousand miles away from the spot where his remains now repose, and long before he even dreamed of converting "Wolfert's Boost into Sunnyside, he wrote thus concerning Sleepy Hollow, in his introduction to the legend : --

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