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Bruce, Wallace, 1844-1914

"The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention"


_State Reformatory for Women_, on bluff south of Hudson.
_Hudson_, 115 miles from New York. Promenade Hill just north of
landing.
_Athens_, quiet village, on the west bank.
_Stockport._ On east side, four miles north of Hudson, near the mouth
of Columbiaville Creek, formed by the union of the Kinderhook and
Claverack Creeks.
_Four-mile Point._ On west side, about 125 feet high; four miles from
Hudson and four from Coxsackie.
_Coxsackie._ On west side, 8 miles from Hudson.
* * *
For while the beautiful moon arose,
And drifted the boat in the yellow beams,
My soul went down the river of thought
That flows in the mystic land of dreams.
_Richard Henry Stoddard._
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_Newtown Hook_, opposite Coxsackie. The wooded point is called
Prospect Grove.
_Stuyvesant._ On the east side. Once called Kinderhook Landing.
_Schodack Island._ On east side, about two miles above Stuyvesant. The
island is about 3 miles long.
_New Baltimore._ About opposite the centre of Schodack Island; fifteen
miles from Hudson and fifteen from Albany.


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