y of Miss Clarkson, known as the old Chancellor Place,
on east bank.
_Hotel Kaaterskill_ is plainly seen from this point.
* * *
O would that she were here,
Sure Eden's garden-plot,
Did not embrace more varied charms
Than this romantic spot.
_George P. Morris._
* * *
_Malden_, above Saugerties, on west side.
_Clermont_, above Tivoli. The original Livingston manor.
_West Camp_, on west side, above Malden.
_Four County Island._ The "meeting point" of Dutchess, Columbia,
Greene and Ulster.
_Germantown_, on east side, 105 miles from New York.
_Man in the Mountain._ Between Germantown and Catskill we get a fine
view of the reclining giant, traced by the following outline:--the
peak to the south is the _knee_; the next to the north is the
_breast_; and two or three above this, the _chin_, the _nose_, and the
_forehead_.
_Roeliff Jansen's Kill_ meets the Hudson on east bank above what is
known by the pilots as Nine Mile Tree.
_Herman Livingston's Residence_, on point above.
_Catskill Creek_ joins the Hudson south of Catskill.
_Catskill_, 110 miles from New York. Route from this point to Catskill
Mountains, via Catskill Mountain Railroad.
_Prospect Park Hotel_, on west bank, north of Catskill.
_Cole's Grove_, north of Catskill. Here was the residence of Thomas
Cole, the artist.
_Frederick E. Church's Residence._ One of the most commanding sites
and finest residences, opposite Catskill.
_Rodger's Island_, on the east side, where the last battle was fought
between the Mohawks and the Mahicans.
_Mount Merino_, two miles north of Roger's Island.
_State Reformatory for Women_, on bluff south of Hudson.
_Hudson_, 115 miles from New York. Promenade Hill just north of
landing.
_Athens_, quiet village, on the west bank.
_Stockport._ On east side, four miles north of Hudson, near the mouth
of Columbiaville Creek, formed by the union of the Kinderhook and
Claverack Creeks.
_Four-mile Point._ On west side, about 125 feet high; four miles from
Hudson and four from Coxsackie.
_Coxsackie._ On west side, 8 miles from Hudson.
* * *
For while the beautiful moon arose,
And drifted the boat in the yellow beams,
My soul went down the river of thought
That flows in the mystic land of dreams.
_Richard Henry Stoddard._
* * *
_Newtown Hook_, opposite Coxsackie. The wooded point is called
Prospect Grove.
_Stuyvesant._ O
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