THE HUDSON.

which our sketch of Blackwcll's Ishuid was taken -- Avas a theatre of some stirring scenes during the revolution. Until within a few years it remained in its primitive condition -- a sheltered cove with a gravelly beach, and high rocky shores covered with trees and shrubbery. Here the British government had a magazine of military stores, and these the Sons of Liberty, as the early Republicans were calleel, determined to seize, in

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July, 1775. A party, under the direction of active members of that association, proceeded stealthily by water, in the evening, from Greenwich, Connecticut, passed the dangerous vortex of Hell-gate at twilight, and at midnight surprised and captured the guard, and seized the stores. The oil storehouse in which they were deposited was yet standing, in 1861, a venerable relic of the past among the busy scenes of the present.

THE HUDSON.

At Turtle Bay we fairly meet the city in it3 gradual movement along the shores of the East River. Eclow this point almost every relic of the past, in Nature and Art, has been swept away by pick and powder ; and wharves, store-houses, manufactories, and dwellings, are occupying places where, only a few years ago, were pleasant country seats, far away from the noise of the town. Our ride in this direction will, therefore, have no special attractions, so let us turn towards the Hudson again, and visit some points of interest in the central and lower portions of the island within the limits of the regulated streets. The allotted space allows us to take only glimpses at some of the most prominent points and objects.