Identifier: americapicturesq02cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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os-ciuskos Garden, a favorite resort of the Polishofficer, is the secluded path which generations of im-pulsive young cadets have known as the FlirtationWalk. Beginning at the roadway, high on thebluff, overlooking the river, it winds with deviousturns down the declivity, and after curving aroundthe promontory near the waters edge, sweeps grandlyup the incline again. This trysting-path leads undera lacework of foliage, giving it pleasant and medita-tive gloom even when the sun shines brightly. Overacross the river is the village of Cold Spring, havingboth above and below the shores rising steeply, andhung upon the edge is the pretty Church of St.Marys, Avith its columned portico and surmountingbelfry. Nearby the railway running along the shorepierces a tunnel through a rugged protruding rock.Here is the Cold Spring foundry that makes cannonfor the army. Almost under the Parade Ground onthe northern side is the Siege Battery, where theguns in time of artillery practice carry on a noisy
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THE N: PIIBMC ASTOR..P. OLD CRO NEST AND THE STORM KING. 163 and reverberating warfare across the Cove againstthe dark and towering side of old Cro Nest. Thisgrand mountain, the target for the youthful gunners,inspired the muse of George P. Morris, the lyricpoet of the Highlands, whose delightful home was atUnderclifF, across the river above, at the foot ofMount Taurus. His eyes perpetually feasted uponthe view of this peak, and thus he described it: Where Hudsons wave oer silvery sandsWinds through the hills afar,Old Cro Nest like a monarch standsCrowned with a single star. The northern portal of the Highlands is guardedon either hand by the Storm King, rising fifteen hun-dred and twenty-nine feet, and Mount Taurus, fifteenhundred and eighty-six feet. There are also agalaxy of attendant peaks. Beyond Mount Taurusis Breakneck Hill, rising nearly twelve hundred feet,with a chain of mountains stretching far to the north-east, among them the Old Beacon and the toweringGrand Sachem, sixte

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