CHAPTER VI. 



Along the Tappaan Zee. — The Pathfinder s Home, 

 — TJie Old Van Cortlandt Manor-Honse. — 

 Up the Croton. — Two Views of the New 

 Dam. — Revolutionary Memories. — Canaan- 

 ites of the Seventeenth Century, 



The old Albany Turnpike, as it is still some- 

 times called beyond Tarrytown, where I do 

 not remember having seen any more sign- 

 boards indicating that it is Broadway, is true 

 to its name for the intervening six miles be- 

 fore we reach Sing Sing, the country residence 

 of New York ex-Aldermen and ex-financiers 

 in general. They are there, solving the prob- 

 lem of capital and labor by equalization with 

 the horny-handed sons of toil who erstwhile 

 worked with revolvers, bowie-knives, and bur- 

 glars' tools. 



The road is all '^ up hill and down dale," 

 passing over eminences that command some 

 of the finest views of the Hudson where it 



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