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When first the Americans of the Northern States began to talk much of their country, their claims as to fine scenery were confined to Niagara and the Hudson River. Of Niagara I have spoken; and all the world has acknowledged that no claim made on that head can be regarded as exaggerated. As to the Hudson I am not prepared to say so much generally, though there is one spot upon it which cannot be beaten for sweetness. I have been Maillot Hongrie Pas CHer up and Ostaa Halpa Nike Air Max Naisten down the Hudson by water, and confess that the entire river is pretty. But there is much of it that is not Scarpe Nike Free 4.0 Donna pre-eminently pretty among rivers. As a whole, it cannot be named with the Upper Mississippi, with the Rhine, with the Moselle, or with the Upper Rhone. The palisades just out of New York are pretty, and the whole passage through the mountains from West Point up to Catskill and Hudson is interesting. But the glory of the Hudson is at West Point itself; and thither on this occasion we went direct by railway, and there we remained for two days. The Catskill Mountains should be seen by a detour from San Francisco 49ers Hattar off the river. We did not visit them, because here again the hotel was closed. I will leave Franck Ribery Tröja them, therefore, for the new hand book which Mr. Carolina Panthers Murray will soon bring out.
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