The picturesque beauties of the Hudson River and its vicinity; (1835) (14764495905)

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Title: The picturesque beauties of the Hudson River and its vicinity;
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838
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Publisher: New York : J. Disturnell
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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refour other small islands. Two of them only, viz. Ellis and Bedlow, are now visibleexcept at very low water, when the rocks of the others, viz. Oyster Island andRobins Reef, are discoverable. Oyster Island is in the Oyster Banks, at a smalldistance south-west of Bedlows Island. Robins Reef we described. Ellis andGovernors Islands are the nearest of the islands to New-York or Manhattan Island.New-York Island, when Hudson visited it, particularly that part of it now coveredby the city, presented a wild and rough aspect: a thick forest covered those parts of itwhere vegetation could find support; its beach was broken, sandy, or rocky, andfUU of inlets; its interior presented hills or sandy alluvion, masses of rock, ponds,swamps and marshes. Long Island was early settled by the Walloons, a bold and hardy race of men,who were the last to receive the Roman yoke, and the first to throw it off Theyfearlessly began their agricultural pursuits, and never were seriously disturbed by theIndians.
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