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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. 257 words

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.

In a cluster, a short distance from St. Mark's, are the Bible House, Cooper Institute, Clinton Hall, and Astor Library,*'' places which intellio-ent strangers in the city should not pass by. The first three are seen

ST. mark's church and historical society house. in our sketch, the Eible House on the right, the Cooper Institute on

* The New York Society Library, in University Place, is the oldest public library in the United States. It was incorporated in the year 1700, under the title of " The PubUc Library of New York." Its name was changed to its present one in 1754. It contains almost 50,000 volumes.

THE HUDSON.

the k'ft, and Clinton Hall in the distance. The open area is Astor Place.

The Bible Honse occupies a whole block or square. It belongs to the American Bible Society. A large portion of the building is devoted to the business of the association. Blank paper is delivered to the presses in the sixth story, and proceeds downwards through regular stages of

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