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ing-place below West Point excepting between 

 Tarrytown and Nyack, and the ferry-boat 

 which did that service having been burned, it 

 has not been thought worth while to replace 

 her. 



About the line between New York and New 

 Jersey over there, there are curious old Dutch 

 settlements, and there are Revolutionary leg- 

 ends of battles and of the rank treason hatched 

 upon their shores. I have always desired to 

 tread upon their ground. 



An opportunity was offered by the building 

 of the great natural bridge which this year has 

 stretched across the Hudson from its source 

 far down to within fifteen miles of New York. 

 How well the Ice King does his architectural 

 work ! First he fringes the shores and spreads 

 his glassy outworks towards the channel; it 

 is a long time before they meet, but when 

 they touch and come together, the building 

 goes rapidly on, the substrata thicken inch by 

 inch until what seems to be the maximum of 

 two feet is gained. 



In the last winter Fanny and I had gone 

 over the road travelled by the hapless Andre 

 from his landing on the eastern shore until he 

 was captured at Tarrytown, and his subsequent 



