On the heels of the retreating perch and cat-fish came the denizens of
the salt water, and codfish were taken ninety miles above New York.
When the February thaw came and brought up the volume of fresh water
again, the sea brine was beaten back, and the fish, what were left of
them, resumed their old feeding-grounds.
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Still on the Half-Moon glides: before her rise swarms
of quick water fowl, and from her prow the sturgeon
leaps, and falls with echoing splash.
_Alfred B. Street._
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Beneath--the river with its tranquil flood,
Around--the breezes of the morning, scented
With odors from the wood.
_William Allen Butler._
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"It is this character of the Hudson, this encroachment of the sea upon
it, on account of the subsidence of the Atlantic coast, that led
Professor Newberry to speak of it as a drowned river. We have heard
of drowned lands, but here is a river overflowed and submerged in the
same manner. It is quite certain, however, that this has not always
been the character of the Hudson.
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