The New England magazine (1907) (14590136980)

Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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ast and the north, it stretcheth twelve leagues, whereit wareth broader and broader, and maketh a gulfe about twenty leagues incompass, wherein are five small islands, very fruitfull and pleasant, full ofhie and broad trees, among the which islands, any great navie may ridesafe without any fear of tempest or other danger. In this harbor Verrazzano appears to have remained about fifteendays. He and his men frequently went on shore to obtain supplies and seethe country. He says in another part of his letter — Sometimes our menstayed two or three dies on a little island near the ship for divers necessa-ries. We were oftentimes within the land five or six leagues, which wefound as pleasant as is possible to declare, very apt for any kind of hus-bandry, of corne, wine, and ayle. We entered afterwards into the woods,which we found so thicke that an army, were it never so great, might havehid itself therein; the trees whereof are okes, cypresse-trees, and othersortes unknown in Europe. 578
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BRIDGE AT GLENS FALLS, ON THE HUDSON FEW of our readers who will not consider this subject as one of the mostpicturesque in our collection, and yet many of them, we fear, havepassed over the bridge in our View unconscious of the proximity of so ex-traordinary a scene as the Falls of the Hudson at this spot. This was, at least, our own case when first visiting Lake George, fromSaratoga; and we would counsel everyone to steal a few minutes, even iftravelling by the stage, to descend from the covered bridge to the rocky bedof the river. Miss Martineau observes — We were all astonished at thesplendour of Glens Falls. The full, though narrow Hudson, rushes alongamidst enormous masses of rock, and leaps sixty feet down the chasms andprecipices which occur in the passage, sweeping between dark banks ofshelving rocks below, its current speckled with foam. The noise is so tre-mendous, that I cannot conceive how people can fix their dwellings in theimmediate neighborhood. There is a long brid