Identifier: touristsguidethr00colt (find matches)
Title: The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Colt, S. S
Subjects: New York Central and Hudson River Railroad New York (State) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Albany, N.Y., Ed. and pub. by Mrs. S. S. Colt
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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iewed from the river above and below, of a grandheadland, that it has been christened Point-no-Point. The originalname signifies grievous, given in consequence of the frequentsqualls which beset the sailor in this neighborhood. We opine that there are other Points, along the Hudson whichwill be called grievous by visitors, on summer nights, when lit-tle, stuffy rooms and kerosene lights, feather beds and mosquitoes,conspire to make up the sum of human evils. We will not indicate further where such summer board maybe found, save to say that where the landlords bills are the highestin proportion to the accommodations offered, there look out formosquito bills of unusual severity and power. Haverstraw is a pretty little village, where, upon what isknown as Treason Hill, stands the house of Joshua HettSmith, where Andre and Benedict Arnold met to arrange the termsof the surrender of West Point. It is of stone, with a piazza infront, and stands on the hillside beyond the flats. Above Haver-
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THE TOURISTS GUIDE. 37 straw is a line of limestone cliff about half a mile in length, andvery valuable, producing a million bushels of lime every year,besides stone for rough masonry, and for macadamizing roads. Directly opposite Haverstraw is Sing Sing. Many fine countryseats crown the Heights of Sing Sing, and a number of educationalestablishments are located here. The great Croton Acqueduct atthis point is very interesting, being carried over the Sing Sing Killby an arch of stone masonry 88 feet between the abutments, and100 feet above the water. The mouth of Croton River is in this vicinity. The name isderived from an Indian word signifying stony place. The State Prison is a little south of the village and close by thebanks of the Hudson. This is not the first instance of the erectionof a prison commanding a fine water prospect, for Byron wrote : Loch Leman lies by Chillons walls. The prisoners are guarded by sentinels, in place of being enclosedby walls. The whole area of the gr

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