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; crossed by drawbridge of the Hudson River Railroad. _Teller's Point._ That part of Croton Point which juts into the Hudson. This point separates Tappan Zee from Haverstraw Bay. * * * O Tappan Zee! with peaceful hills, And slumbrous sky and drowsy air, Thy calm and restful spirit stills The heart weighed down with weary care. _Wallace Bruce_. * * * _Haverstraw Bay_, widest part of the river; over four miles in width. _West Shore R. R. Tunnel_ under mountain. _West Shore Railroad_, west bank, meets the Hudson south of Haverstraw. _Haverstraw_, on west bank, with two miles of brickyards. _Treason Hill_, where Arnold and Andre met at the house of Joshua Hett Smith, northwest of Haverstraw. _Stony Point_, west bank. Lighthouse built on site and from the material of old fort captured from British by Anthony Wayne in 1778. _Verplank's Point_, on east shore, full of brickyards. It was here Baron Steuben drilled the soldiers of '76. _Tompkin's Cove_, on west bank. Lime kilns and quarries. _Peekskill_, east bank, pleasantly located on Peekskill Bay. _New York State Encampment_, on bluff north of Peekskill Creek. _Kidd's Point_, on west bank, where steamer enters Highlands almost at a right angle. _Dunderberg Mountain_, west bank, forming with Manito Mountain on the east southern portal of Highlands. _Iona Island_, former pleasure resort for excursions, now converted to Government use. _The Race._ The river channel is so termed by navigators, between Iona Island and the east bank. _Anthony's Nose_, east bank, with railroad tunnel. _Montgomery Creek_, on west side, empties into the Hudson about opposite the point of Anthony's Nose. _Fort Clinton_ was on the south side of this creek, and _Fort Montgomery_ on the north side. _J. Pierpont Morgan's Residence_, on west bank. _Sugar-Loaf_, east bank, resembling an old "sugar-loaf" to one looking north from Anthony's Nose. * * * From Stony Point to Bemis Height, From Saratoga to the sea, We trace the lines, now dark, now bright, From seventy-six to eighty-three. _Wallace Bruce._ * * * _Beverley Dock_, at foot of Sugar-Loaf, from which point Arnold fled to the "Vulture." _Lady-Cliff Academy_, (west side) on bluff. _Hamilton Fish's Residence_, on hill, east side. _William H. Osborne's Residence_, on east bank; house with pointed tower north of Sugar-Loaf.
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