es IN AUS. 
VOL. II. FEBRUARY, 1890. No. 10. 
COLLECTING LAND SHELLS IN EASTERN NEW YORK. 
BY] WioS.) EATON: 
Near the east shore of the Hudson, midway between Tivoli and 
Barrytown, in Duchess Co., New York, is Cruger’s Island. It has 
an area of seventy-five acres, and is so richly endowed with beauties 
and attractions—nature’s gifts, which the owners have carefully 
fostered—that to the visitor it seems a place of enchantment. The 
scenery is especially fine; an almost undisturbed view for miles up 
and down the “ Rhine of America,” with the majestic Catskills some 
ten miles distant to the west, a beautiful background to the picture; 
while from its many winding paths are ever-changing vistas of water, 
mountain and sky. 
At the northeasta large stream, the White Clay Kill, rushes down 
the rocks through a romantic glen and has its outlet. South of 
this, for a long distance, fringing the east shore of the cave, and hay- 
ing a width varying from an eighth to a half mile, is an extent of 
heavily-wooded land of perhaps two hundred acres, part of a park- 
like domain of Revolutionary days called “ Almont.” The soil is of 
decided clayey character, and there are a half dozen little rivulets 
coming from the hills at the east running through to the river, 
With their numerous tributary branches they have cut their way 
down through the plastic earth making quite an intricate succession 
of deep gullies. 
Here are hundreds of grand, massive white oaks, beeches, and 
hickories, growing so thickly as to almost shut out a glimpse of the 
