The home book of the picturesque, or, American scenery, art, and literature : comprising a series of essays by Washington Irving, W.C. Bryant, Fenimore Cooper, Miss Cooper, N.P. Willis, Bayard Taylor, H.T. Tuckerman, E.L. Magoon, Dr. Bethune, A.B. Street, Miss Field, etc., with thirteen engravings on steel, from pictures by eminent artists, engraved expressly for this work (1852)
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e Cathohc. To conclude, we concede to Europe much the noblest scenery, in itsAlps, Pyienees, and Apennines; in its objects of art, as a matter ofcourse; in all those effects which depend on time and association, in itsmonuments, and in this impress of the past which may be said to bereflected in… … y. ,/ ,>/<;..^^ THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. BY WASHINGTON IRVING. The Catskill, Katskill, or Cat Eiver Mouutaius derived tlieir name,in the time of the Dutch domination, from the Catamounts bywhich they were infested; and which, with the bear, the wolf, andthe deer, are still to be found in some…
