Produced by Curtis Weyant, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections) [Transcriber's Note: Each page of this book contained, as a footer, a stanza of poetry, or a prose quotation, which, although pertinent to the text, were not part of it. I have retained these, moving them to a suitable location between paragraphs, and enclosing them in short markers: * * * ....* * *. Any poetry not enclosed within short * * * markers is an integral part of the text. The list of typos and corrections is at the end of the book.] * * * * * THE HUDSON Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention BY WALLACE BRUCE Centennial Edition Published by BRYANT UNION COMPANY NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1907 BY WALLACE BRUCE CONTENTS. CENTENNIAL GREETING. PAGE HISTORY, ROMANCE AND INVENTION 9-39 An Open Book 10 The Hudson and the Rhine 11 The Half Moon 12 Its Discovery 15 First Description 16 Names of the Hudson 18 Hills and Mountains 19 Sources of the Hudson 19 First Settlement 20 The West India Company 21 Original Manors and Patents 23 The Dutch and the English 24 New Amsterdam 25 New York 26 Sons of Liberty 28 Greater New York 30 Hudson River Steamboats 31 Day Line Steamers 34 The Old Reaches 38 Five Divisions of the Hudson 39 NEW YORK TO ALBANY. DESBROSSES STREET PIER TO FORTY-SECOND STREET 41-43 Historic River Front 41 A Great Panorama 41 Statue of Liberty--Stevens Castle 42