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distant hills. This is one of the most celebrated places on 
the Hudson, and there are few that so well pay the lover 
of improved landscape for a visit. 
Just below Ellerslie are the fine mansion and pleasing 
-grounds of Wm. Emmet, Esq., — the former a stone edifice, 
in the castellated style, and the latter forming a most 
agreeable point on the margin of the river. 
The seat of Mrs. Gardiner Howland, near ]STew Ham- 
burgh, is not only beautiful in situation, but is laid out 
with great care, and is especially remarkable for the 
many rare trees and shrubs collected in its grounds. 
Wodenethe , near Fishkill landing, is the seat of H. W. 
Sargent, Esq., and is a bijou full of interest for the lover 
of rural beauty ; abounding in rare trees, shrubs, and 
plants, as well as vases, and objects of rural embellish- 
ment of all kinds. 
Kenwood, formerly the residence of J. Rathbone, Esq., 
is one mile south of Albany. Ten years ago this spot was a 
wild and densely wooded hill, almost inaccessible. With 
great taste and industry Mr. Rathbone has converted it 
into a country residence of much picturesque beauty, 
erected in the Tudor style, one of the best villas in the 
country, with a gate-lodge in the same mode, and laid out 
the grounds with remarkable skill and good taste. There 
are about 1200 acres in this estate, and pleasure grounds, , 
forcing houses, and gardens, are now flourishing where ah 
was so lately in the rudest state of nature ; while, by the 
judicious preservation of natural wood, the effect of a long 
cultivated demesne has been given to the whole. 
The Manor House of the “ Patroon” (as the eldest son 
of the Van Rensselaer family is called) is in the northern 
suburbs of the city of Albany. The mansion, greatly 
