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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. 250 words

The latter is one of the most flourishing and important

associations in New York, and numbers among its membership -- resident, corresponding, and honorary -- many of the best minds in America and Europe. It has a very large and valuable library, and an immense collection of manuscripts and rare things ; also the entire collection of Egyptian antiquities brought to the United States by the late Dr. Abbott, several marbles from Nineveh, and a choice gallery of pictures, chiefly by American artists. f

stuyvesant's house.

* Peter Stuj-vesant was a native of Holland : he was bred to the art of war, and had been in public life, as Governor of C»ra9oa, before he assumed the government of New Netherlands. He was a man of dignity, honest and true. He was energetic, aristocratic, and overbeai'ing. His deportment made liim unpopular with the people, yet liis services were of vastly more value to them and the province than those of any of his predecessors. He was " Peter the Headstrong " in Knickerbocker's burlesque history of New York, -WTitten by Irving, who describes him as a man "of such immense activity and decision of mind, that he never sought nor accepted the advice of others." . ..." A tough, sturdy, valiant, weather-beaten, mettlesome, obstinate, leather-sided, lion-hearted, generous-spirited old governor."

t The New York Historical Society was organised in December, 1S04. Its fire-proof building, in which its collections are deposited, was completed in the autumn of 18.57.

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THE HUDSON.

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