Excerpt from The Hudson Illustrated With Pen and Pencil: Comprising Sketches, Local and Legendary, of Its Several Places of Interest, Together With the Route to Niagara Falls; Forming a Companion for the Pleasure Tourist It is somewhat remarkable that this noble river, so rife with all that inspires poetic sentiment, should, to a great extent, have failed to have awakened the raptures of the poet, or en listed the magic pencil of the artist; and this is but rendered the more conspicuous, when it is remembered that it is one of the great highways of commerce, as well as the chosen route of thousands of pleasure tourists. It is with the view of sup plying this deficiency that we propose to group together, by pen and pencil, the manifold attractions presented to the eye of those who may make the tour of the Hudson, that the fol lowing pages have been prepared. Before, however, we com mence our ad libitum tour, suffer us to enact the cicerone for the good old city from which we propose to start, and take a glance at some of its leading objects of interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.