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the strong walls of some mighty fortress, have looked grimly down upon us for twenty miles or more in our ascent of the river, we emerge into that bright, broad expanse of waters known to the old Dutch navigators as the Zuider Zee, and now called the Tappan Bay. This great lake-like widening of the Hudson is the first of three similar formations, the next being the Haverstraw Bay immediately beyond, and the last the charming bay of Newburgh just above the Highland Pass.

The rocky flanks of the Palisades were fashioned, says tradition, in times long past, by the mighty spirit Mantheo, to protect his favorite abodes from the unhallowed eyes of mortals. While the jealous deity thus effectually secluded himself, it was at the cost of all the pleasant peeps at the world beyond, the graceful blending of the valley with the hill, which the voyager is glad to see, at last, upon the left hand, no less than on the right, as the Palisades iall away, and the heretofore imprisoned waters expand their bounds, as in noliday glee, between the far distant shores. From this point onward, our story will lie alike on both sides of the river, each being, henceforth, alive with human as with pictorial incident and interest; though the eastern margin is still the most densely and most richly populated, while to the other belongs, as before, the bolder landscape beauties. The river at the point of which we are speaking, has a noble breadth of from three to four miles, and in its altered character, presents of course, scenes of new and great delight. The voyager might very reasonably think himself in fairy-land, should he chance here on a quiet, sunny, summer day, when the clear still waters reflect the whiteness of a hundred lazy sails, and the sunshine of the all-encircling hill-sides; or he might forget that he is upon the bosom of a decorous and peaceful river, should storm and tempest darken the mountains and valleys, and rudely awaken the dreaming floods.

Charming as is this neighborhood in its physical aspect, it is no less distinguished in its historic and poetic story. Here lie the scenes of that most affecting episode of our revolutionary chronicles, the capture and fate of the gallant André. It was at Dobbs' Ferry, near the southern entrance to the Tappan Sea, that the first rendezvous of the unfortunate soldier with his most traitorous confederate was

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appointed. In the heart of the present village of Tarrytown, midway on the eastern shore of the Bay, a bold obelisk now marks the fatal spot upon which fortune consigned him to the cruel destiny of a captured spy, and just across the broad river, the traveller may yet enter the little apartment in which his last numbered days were wearily passed; and, still hard by, he may muse upon the very spot, marked at this day by a rudely sculptured stone, upon which he so ignominiously expiated his offence. For themes of sweeter thought, we may turn here to the quiet shades of Sleepy Hollow and other classic scenes, embalmed in the purest amber of the genius of Irving. The beloved magician himself dwelt close by, within the secluded little walls of that most unique and cozy cottage, known to all the world as Sunnyside; a home both within and without as sweet a picture and poem in its way as has been the life and labors of its gifted occupant. Across the river, and (as he himself might phrase it) 'immejuntly fernent' the Sunnyside retreat, lives the genial gossip, Clark, at whose merry and hospitable 'Table' the patrons of the Knickerbocker Magazine have for so many years enjoyed 'the feast of reason and the flow of soul. May he long live to see the cedars green around his cheerful cot, and to look through their verdant fringe down upon the broad waters so dear to his heart. With this inviting chart opened before us, we will now begin our day's tramp.

A little below the Tappan Bay, and upon the eastern verge of the river lies the charming village of Hastings, where we left the traveller at the close of the preceding chapter. He has enjoyed his sojourn there, no doubt, for despite the metropolitan proximity of the place, its rural aspect is as excellent as though no such highways as the Hudson and its railroad touched its threshold: more than may be truly said of any of the river localities below. The hamlet - for the more stately villa-edifices apart, such it is - lies snugly nestled in the depths of a beautiful glen, or spreads quietly away upon its verdant acclivities and lofty terraces, looking into the shades of old woods, and listening to the murmurs of running brooks below, and gazing far up and down the broad river above. In the olden time, that is to say, in the days of our revolution, the region around was the domain of the worthy farmer, Peter Post, whose patriotism on one occasion subjected him to an experience which he remembered, no doubt, with less pleasure than we do now. At the period referred to he assisted the patriots, under Colonel Sheldon, to surprise a party of marauding Hessians, by beguiling them into the belief that the Americans, whom they were pursuing, had moved on in a certain direction, while they were snugly ambushed conveniently in the rear.