The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-13

I The ruined wharves were places whence the
stone as shipped down tue river. Our
{ factories" we're probably stonecutteTs'
sheds.
! But another old inhabitant, equally
/ trust worthy, remembe well the time whel
4 New Yorx was paved with Jersey OasaIt.
/ They did not cut 1t over there opposite
! Gle wood and Hastings; 1t was all takeI
I from quarries near and be.ow Weehawken.
/ II there are so many RUNS over there 1t
I must be, he suppose. because the railroads
/ have, IN great measure, Killed the river
I traffic. In the cd umes the Hudson vas
/ tie highway to New York city. Now
! nearly everything and every 'ody goes by
/ train. The des rted houses must have once
/ belonged to the cap aims or sailors OF river
/ craft, and the "fac .orirs" he suppoSes were
! wa edouses. s. the ruins are not satlstac-
| toriiy accounted for, and they yet await
/ their SchlIeman B.
/ Natures forces are constantly chipping
/ masses Of stone off the face Of the Palisades
ami hurhhg them downward IN fragments
| There the bits VI rock have been filling up
! year after year, till they hav- made q heap
reaching nalf way up the preclp.ce Forest
| trees have taken root among them, and
I thus th3 wooded slope beiOw the ROCKY
ranpar has gradually been built up aad
| clothed WITH green. Fltty years az ,, says
very oil lluab!ta1t, there was III Ich less
! Of this shelving woodland, and once upon a
time, no doubt. tue preclp tous ROCKS rose
sheer from the very margin of the river.
sometimes IN early ring wnen the frost is
working up OIt OF The ground another great
piece of rock spin erS off Uae main mass
and crashes down With a tnuuderOus sound
which can be distinctly heard on the
fOIkerS side. Wnsn the Sto ie is thus
Clipped away 10y the action of the elements
sea left which Gun ue readily disUin-
gulShed fr M tue deck of a boat IN mil
stream. The surface Just laid bare is Of
pale brOwuish Il q, ami contrasts decidedly
with the gray coiors of the surrounding
moss-grown and ,eaUner-wOrn rock.
As We journey up tn river the Pail AIDES
grow l1tLer, wider, and more rugged. A
! little pain, beautifully shaded, runs north
ward along the summit sufficiently close 10
the tge to give tn pc ieSUrlan views of the
wonderful rocSS below aim. In some places
the basalt is spin cred into Immense eight
sided blocks. These are laid one above
anotner VITA Such regularity that one is
IIciined 10 think that [ ere are giants on
the earth, even il these days, and that some
OF tAem skilled in m tso1ry have bee at
work here. . the Palisades are a least
| two so-called "DeyPs Pu.pits,n semi-circu-
| lar rocks JdttluS over the precipice below,
and followed out on the landward sid
| here and there sic der pillars over 80
| feeG high have split away from the main
mass and stan il solitary grandeu Seeing
| them one Is re uildsd of PICTURES and tray
elers tales of the rocks III the Garden of the
Gods. But these devils toothpicks'' of
| the Palisades stand in the foreground of a
scene which cannot be equaled in the Ma
tlonal Park.
The river shimmers just beyond them. Its
eastern shore Is tied with houses aud
with busy towns, and looking further east
ward we see gently rolling, cloud-dappled
| ching a w To lie
waters are dotted with sails which look at
this distance no larger than showflakes,
aud beyond the sound We see the far hills OF
Northern Lcng Island, mere shadows on the
sky.
AS we go closer to the edge of the cliffs to
look at the Lovely vlstas up and down the
| river there is a sudden swoop and a start
Ii 6 scream just below US. An eagle mas
her nest on the face of the rocks near by,
and she Is expressing her disp.easure at our
intrusion upon what she considers her own
privat5 property. Que could 20 far in the
Catskills nowadays bsfore he would almost
literally stumble upon the dwelling of this
bird Of the wilderness.
Tbs wild and BEAUTIFUL region of the up
per Palisades can be reached by means of a
little ferry which crosses from Yonkers,
making three landings on the Jersey side
| From the lowest landing a good carriage
road winds gradually up the face of the
| PALISADES, ana Wneu the Su ,nmlt Is reached
turns northward through dense woods and
runs parallel with the river about quarter
of a mile inland. A member of the broth
erhood or tramps, Injured TO rough walking,
can reac1 tie grand ROCKS nuchS
more quickly by making the ascent from
the third or nor .hernmost la ding. Here
we will fad a trail maxim, for the summit as
directly as the laws f gravlta ion will per
NIT. TINS leads into the forest-shadowed
foot path already me toned This short
but hard scramble upward through the
rocky woods is a "reminiscences of mountain
climbing. As we pause for breath after it
we realize that all around us there are sug-
gestions Of Adirondack days. Mountain
floa ers bloom among the stones at our feet.
and the breeze Nhich comes to US is bracing
and pine-scented, as if it blew amid the
hills
GAS the crow flies" the city hall is not
twenty miles away. We cou d reach it in
less than two hours, even with cur clumsy
human means Of locomotion. Yet around
us is mountain scenery and mountain soil
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