Coal, cement and blue-stone are the prominent industries of the city. The cement works yield several million dollars annually and employ about two thousand men. A million tons of coal enter the Hudson _via_ the Port of Rondout from the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania every year. Blue-stone also meets tide-water at this point, brought in from quarries throughout the country by rail or by truck. The city of Kingston, the largest station on the _West Shore_ between Weehawken and Albany, has admirable railroad facilities connecting with the _Erie Railway_ at Goshen _via_ the _Wallkill Valley_, and the Catskills _via_ the _Ulster & Delaware_. All roads centre at the Union Station and the _Ulster & Delaware_ connects at Kingston Point with the Hudson River Day Line, also with the _New York Central_ by ferry from Rhinebeck. =To the Catskills.=--The two principal routes to the Catskills are _via_ Kingston and the _Ulster & Delaware Railroad_, and _via_ Catskill Landing, the _Catskill Mountain Railway_ and _Otis Elevating Railway_ to the summit of the mountains. It has occurred to the writer to divide the mountain section in two parts: =The Southern Catskills.=--Kingston Point, where the steamer lands is indeed a _picturesque portal to a picturesque journey_. The beautiful park at the landing presents the most beautiful frontage of any pleasure ground along the river. Artistic pagodas located at effective points add greatly to the natural landscape effect, and excursionists _via_ Day Line from Albany have a delightful spot for lunch and recreation while waiting for the return steamer. In the busy months of mountain travel it is interesting to note the rush and hurry between the landing of the steamer and the departure of the train. The "all aboard" is given, and as we stand on the rear platform a friend points north to a bluff near Kingston Point and says the Indian name is "Ponckhockie"--signifying a burial ground. The old redoubts of Kingston, on the left, were defenses used in early days against the Indians. After leaving Kingston Union Depot, the most important station on the _West Shore Railroad_, and the terminus of the _Wallkill Valley Railroad_, we pass through Stony Hollow, eight miles from Rondout, where the traveler will note the stone tracks in the turnpike below, on the right side of the car, used by quarry wagons. Crossing the Stony Hollow ravine, we reach West Hurley, nine miles from Rondout and 540 feet above the sea.