Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation (1907)
Buckman, David Lear · New York : The Grafton press · leaf 174
lands and bythe parapetted Palisades, until it mingles its waterswith those of the bay in front of the great metropolis,the very gateway through which by far the largest in-flux of the wealth of the nation, namely, its people,have reached the New World. x\ river three hundred and twenty miles in… … Henry Hudsons River 119 State and the city at its outlet the metropoHs of thecountrj. From the first the Hudson played a most importantpart in the colonization of America. When the youngcolonies had grown strong and asserted their freedomand the War of Independence was on, with whatsolicitous care…
Steam-navigation -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
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