Identifier: rand07inge (find matches)
Title: Rand
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946
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Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o travel upon steamers, and must not be overlooked in ourdescription. The Palisades, which the Mohicans said wereerected by the Great Spirit to protect his favorite abodes fromunhallowed eyes of mortals—is this a bit of sun-myth, referring tothe declining king-of-day?—have given place to a graceful blend-ing of valley and hill, stretching northward to a bold promontorywhich, in some states of the weather, becomes sublime in itsaspect. The scenery of the Tappau Sea and its boldly sculpturedshores varies widely, with the state of the atmosphere, from themost tame and prosaic condition to an appearance of boldgrandeur or idyllic beauty. The voyager, remarks the land-scape artist Richards, might very reasonably think himself infairy-land, should he chance here on a quiet, sunny summer day,when the clear still waters reflect the whiteness of a hundred lazysails, and the sunshine of the all-encircling hillsides; or he mightforget that he is upon the bosom of a decorous and peaceful (58)
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i 5 \. ^ TARRYTOWN TO WEST POINT. 59 river, should storm and tempest darken the mountains andvalleys, and rudely awaken the dreaming floods. Nyack, just beyond the Piermont jetty, is the only town ofimportance on the western side of Tappan Sea. It is a prettyand prosperous village at the terminus of the Northern Railroadof New Jersey. Of late years, it has become one of the favoritesuburban summer residences, and for some reason has especiallyattracted many of the South Americans of wealth or promi-nence who live in New York and Washington. The village includes, besides Nyack proper, South Nyack, WestNyack, and Upper Nyack. In winter it has some 5,000 inhabit-ants, and settles down into a steady-going manufacturing town,in which nearly everybody is concerned, directly or indirectly, j with making shoes, or else with building yachts and boats. Insummer, however, Nyack is increased by three or four thousandsummer residents, who fill the hotels and boarding-houses, and i find plentiful a

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