Home / crotonhistory.org / Passage

Winter On The Hudson River

crotonhistory.org 47 words

common large sail-boat. The passengers sit flat upon the platform, and with a good wind are moved rapidly over the ice, oftentimes at the rate of a mile in a minute.” ↩ Tomkins Cove is on the west side of the Hudson River, opposite Verplanck. ↩ Share