Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-18

again, and we had begun our jour.
ney up that river which was sup
posed to have been discovered by
| the man whose name it bears. But +
lstne river loses none of its romantic
features when we learn from later
| researches that its true discovererl
! was a Florentine agent of Francis III
Of France, and that he visited it'll
nearly a century before its supposed
discovery by Hudson in 1909. In
| 1926, the year after the Florentine's
visit, a Portuguese sailing under the
Spanish flag, entered the river. Thus
! Hudson has some rivals, and it ap-i.
pears that he did not discover, but
4 merely examined the river closely. |
! But our mission is not to settle
i this disputed point in history. Let |
the Dutch, French, Spanish and the
i rest of them attend to that while !
i we continue our journey. We start
A ed from the 42d street dock, and |!
Il steamed up the river past an array
4 Of wharves and warehouses on the
New York side, crowded with ocean
n steamers. On the opposite shore is
n Jersey City which is soon succeed
Il ed by Hoboken. North of Hoboken
i is Weehawken which has melan-
! choly interest as the scene of that
], sad duel between Hamilton and
$ Burr. On the hill top above the.
q scene of the duel is the old house of
Il the King family which was the head
81 quarters of Lafayette after the bat
5 tie of Brandy-Wine. On the right
r a short distance above Weehawken
S is Washington Heights, where in the
e lGark days of '76 after the defeat at
/. the battle of Long Island, the Ameri-
s can army establish itself on
! fated FIT. Washington. Turning our
gaze to the Jersey shore we Der
e mold the first of the Palisades. Here
IS also is the site of an old American
!, fort, Fort Lee, from which place
], the Americans were driven in 76
I and were forced to hasten south
ward to the Delaware river.
: Ine Palisades extend for twenty
J, miles above Fort Lee and from the
) western wall of the river to Toppan
s Isle. The face of the wall is nearly
!, straight, and almost uniform in
4 height rising to an altitude OF
- 350 feet short distance above Fort
], Lee, to $50 feet near It's northern ex
4. trenity. In all this distance there
s are only three breaks in the almost
. PERPENDICULAR wall, sufficiently large
n to enable wagon roads to descend tc
q the river, and in fact there are
q scarcely more places where foo
>: travellers could descend.
m On the right bank, opposite thu
to- middle point of the Palisades is tn,
,e historic village If Yonkers. Thi
in was the uncovered neutral grount
n between the British and American
81 armies after the latter had with
le drawn froI. the place following the
lpl disastrous campaign about White
Plains. Ten miles north of Yorker:
e. the Palisades are at an end and the
:. shores recede to from the lake like
a. expanse of the river known as the
r. Toppan Zee.
rel Near the south end of the Topaz
Mt Zee, and on the east bank is Irving
We! ton, named in honor of Washington
e. Irving, while sunnyside, his home is
al Only half mile distant UP the river
Il SleepS Hollow, the scene of the 70
a nance Of Iehabod Crane and iAatri
j ma Van >Tassel is only few miles
4 istant. Historic Tarrytown is be
u tween sunnyside and Sleepy Hollow
3 but some distance from the river
3 1t will be remembered that Andre
n was captured near this place in 1880
5# "A monument marks the spot where
he was captured, but it cannot be
e seen from the steamer deck About
6 fifteen miles further up the river on
: the western shore is Stony Point
{ where .Ae famous battle of that
I, name was fought in July, 1779.
q The passage Of the Hudson high
i lands begins a short distance above
4 Stony Point. This is regarded as
q the elimination of the journey in
:, point of scenery. although none OF
{, the heights exceed 1900 feet. They
.sI are not mountains. but rather hill
{ ocks of primitive rocks-a part OF
4 the Archaean framework Of the
,a continent. These rocks are covered
8 with close green brush but there
q are no large trees. The river at this
8 point is very marrow, It's, valley be
q ing little more than a gorge.
Il West Point, the United States Mil
d itary Academy, is situated ON a neck
Of land extending into the river lust
y before it enters the high lands. Ii