New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-22
INFJgMATION ABOUT THE PALISADES

AN OVERHEARD CONVERSATION AS TO HOW THEY
BOILED Up AND OTHER PARTICULARS.
person with aesthetic tastes clogged by plodd!ng
necessities. recently discovered that he had Sum
day afternoon to spare. He resolved TO spend part
OF It in viewing the beauties OF nature from the top
OF the Palisades knowing well OF place little
way above Fort Lee from which the prospect IL
almost as beautiful as any in the whole length OF
the Hudson. Up the river the right the low hills
stretch away one behind the other. and the color
blends from dark green slowly into the deep purple
that delights the .mpresslonsts On the other side
the green woods crown the perpendicular walls ana
seem to spill over the brink and pie up in a mass
at the edge Of the water. The water itself Is OF
dozen different shades ard tnts. masked and re-
vealed by those coauettlsh mlsts In which the Hud-
sen delights.
From such wealth as this the receptive soul can
Ali itself with poetry by the hour together. but the
visitor in this fated 10 get something De-
sides poetry When ne had been sitting IN COM
Portable angle Of the rock for few minutes two
mon and a small bow came and stood behind him
He was little sorry that he sitting there. be
cause they evidently wanted the place but ne couid
not get up and go way without making them ieeI
that they had driven him off, so he had TO stay ana
hear what they said. One OF the men spoke WIN .
slight German accent and was addressed as doc
tor" He knew a great deal The boys name was
Freddy
"rt was right here" said the doctor. right mere
,ust we're stand that the big boe stood tna' neid
the telegraph wire that vent 10 Ne"-iork Ci.y'
Plight over 10 dat high hill there. That vas tho
delegraphic communication between Ne"-iorH
CITY and the rest OF the world
There was a pause in which the others see".o
N he digesting this Information. Where Is ths
E.rel Tower" asked Freddy. Nobody answered.
but he was probably satisfied with the Highoridse
tower. juss opposite 100 1900.
Aren't those rocks jus, peautiful?' the doctor
- lima
through here. What a sight that must nave oeen'
"Did they all come up through" the other man
asked.
Yes" said the doctor. thousands and thou
sands OF feet and all boiling like cauldron' ana
they are all brismadic-all sixagonaL They CONS
I'D through again at Staten Island and vonce more
az Hatieras and that's the end OF 1t. All trap
rock Just like this.
The world" Freddy began slowly is h'ne'ee"
thousand'- n, -. -. -,
Nobody paid any attention and he did not go on on
wards deep Ven down there surveying
bace lust like this thousands OF fathoms deep
We pulled the line up twice pegause we Inoug a
the lead had got lost off or something else vas
the matter but IT was all right. and II went down
There must have been the devil 10 pay when az
these rocks came up through ana then ne pause.d
ness Of the picture Isn't {, peautiful?" he said:
how broud those red men must have been whss
RED mem" Freddy repeated ncreduiously
THE Indians" his father explained
Must have been crowded.
NO no. must have been proud
oh" - $3.50
hack 10 the beginning that the big bole stood mat
held the telegraph wire that went over 10 New
York They didn't know anything about gaoles IN
those DAYS That about ISIS -
And th,n they three stroled away and the invoi-
untary listener learned more. And the trouble
is that he is not enough OF geologst and sclentnc
historian TO know even yet whether any or All OF
what he did learn n true.