The view from the mouth of the Spyt den Duyvel, over which the Hudson River Railway passes, loolving either

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across the river to the Palisades, as given in our sketch, or inland, embracing bold Berrian's Neck on the left, and the wooded head of Manhattan Island on the right, with the winding creek, the cultivated ridge on the borders of Harlem River, and the heights of Fordham beyond, present pleasant scenes for the artist's pencil. To these natural scenes, history and romance lend the charm of their associations.

THE HUDSON.

Here, on the 2nd of October, 1608, Henry Hudson had a severe fight with the Indians, who attacked the Half -Moon with arrows from canoes and the points of land, as she lay at anchor in the sheltering month of the creek. Here, too, while Governor Stuyvesant was absent on the Delaware, nine hundred of the river Indians encamped, and menaced the little town of New Amsterdam, at the lower extremity of the island, with destruction. Here^ccording to Diedrick Knickerbocker's " History of iN'ew York," Anthony Van Corlear, the trumpeter of Governor Stuyvesant, lost his life in attempting to swim across the creek during a violent storm. *' The wind was high," says the chronicler, "the elements were in an uproar, and no Charon could be found to ferry the adventurous sounder of brass across the water. For a short time he vapoured like an impatient ghost upon the brink, and then bethinking himself of the urgency of his errand (to arouse the people to arms), he took a hearty embrace of his stone bottle, swore most valorously that he would swim across in spite of the devil {en spijt den (hiyvel), and daringly plunged into the stream. Luckless Anthony ! Scarcely had he buffeted half way over, when he was observed to struggle violently, as if battling with the Spirit of the waters.