176 VIEW OF ALBANY. 



DISTANT VIEW OP ALBANY. 



This view was taken from the east side of the Hudson, 

 about two miles north of Albany. It embraces all the promi- 

 nent buildings of the city, comprising, as they range from right 

 to left, the Academy, the Capitol, the State House, the City 

 Hall, the Episcopal, Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian and 

 Baptist Churches, together with the dome of Stanwix Hall 

 The Caatskill mountains, about twenty-five miles distant from, 

 the city, are seen stretching from east to west. Amid the 

 variety of beautiful scenes which succeed each other to the 

 eye of the voyager as he floats upon the bosom of this mag- 

 nificent river, it is difficult to select for graphic delineation any 

 one, while so many claim the artist's attention. Those who 

 have ever approached the city of Albany when sunset had 

 flung its veil of rosy light above and around it, or when the 

 beams of early morning were reflected from its domes, will not 

 easily forget the exceeding beauty of the view which has been 

 selected as the background to the delicate flower given in the 

 plate. 



