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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ENTRANCE TO THE PLAATERSKILL CLOVE. CATSKILL MOUNTAINS gallery of pictures. We call this open page of the earths story (<the Catskills.)) The beauty of every landscape depends upon its port of view. A hill that seems common-place from one side may have unusual grace and refinement when seen from another side.Herein lies the charm of the Catskills — they are fine from every side. Thrust forward into the comparatively level Hudson valley, they seem to stand quite alone between the Lauren-tian and far older mountains of the Highlands and the Adirondacks. The traveler approaching by boat or by rail on the eastern shore and from the south is surprised soon after leaving Poughkeepsie by sudden, blue elusive glimpses of dimforms, half cloudlike, upon the northern horizon.Then, for more than an hour, by rail, the mountains pass in grand procession, presenting at every mile new charms of peak and slope.In clear weather and. particularly in winter,the banded or stratified appearance of the east-ern f

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