The Hudson: Three Centuries of History, Romance and InventionBruce, Wallace
History
The Hudson: Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention
Bruce, Wallace
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Guidebooks
TOC:--
Entries for "New Amsterdam" and "The Dutch and the English"
reversed, and page number for New Amsterdam changed from 25 to 23.
Page number for "New York" changed from 26 to 27.
Page number for "Yonkers to West Point" changed from 59 to 60.
Changed: '97-104' to '97-103', to match entry.
Changed: '152' (1st listing) to '151', to match entry.
Page number for "Source of the Hudson" changed from 201 to 202.
Changed: 'Colombia County' to 'Columbia Springs', to match entry.
Page 9: Restored missing period and missing half of closing quote.
[Illustration: Hendrick Hudson's "Half Moon."]
Page 35: added 's' to 'landing' (...steamers make their various
landings.)
Page 43: removed extraneous closing quote.
Page 46: added comma after 'erection' (..., now in process of
erection, ...)
Page 55: added 's' to 'make' (forgetting even, as Bryant did, that a
vertical line from the top of the cliff on account of the crumbling
debris of ages make(s) it impossible for even the strongest arm to
hurl a stone from the summit to the margin of the river).
Page 59: missing closing quote, and possibly also missing text in
paragraph?
(one narrator says: "remarkable disappearances ...)
Page 76: changed 'materal' to 'material'.
Page 80: changed 'Revoluton'to 'Revolution'.
Page 94: added missing comma after 'library': "The Library, founded
in 1812, has about 50,000 volumes."
Page 95: changed 'Seige' to 'Siege'"... Siege Battery on the slope...."
Page 96: changed 'pictureque' to 'picturesque'.
Page 107: changed (Major Tench) 'Tighlman' to 'Tilghman'.
Page 107: added opening quote ..."the proclamation of Congress and
the farewell orders of Washington were read, and the last word
of command given."
Page 108/9: changed 'proclams' to 'proclaims'.
Page 110: changed: 'The Marquis De Chastelleaux' to 'The Marquis De
Chastellux' (ref.: google)
Page 113: changed: 'The Marquis De Chastelleux' to 'The Marquis De
Chastellux'
Page 125: added 's' to 'thousand' (thousands of young men)
Page 129: (While sunset gilds) 'theee', to 'thee',
Page 139: changed 'openng' to 'opening'.
Page 145: changed 'Sofly' to 'Softly'.
Page 153: changed 'communicaton' to 'communication'.
Page 153: added closing quote (in about 32 hours.")
Page 155: changed 'wth' to 'with'
Page 173: changed 'thousand' to 'thousands' (...thousands of
laboring men... )
Page 205: added 's' to 'brick' (thousands of bricks)
Page 212: added " to para beginning ("Viewed from the railroad ...)
Page 212: added 's' to 'thousand' (Thousands of travellers ...)
Also added: Periods and commas, various (in the poetry footnotes). The
text appears worn; there is space for a period (and a couple of letters
are missing), so I am assuming that the missing punctuation may have
been rubbed off the page.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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