“After dinner, and upon exchange of presents, the guests retired, inviting Hudson by signs to come down to them; for the ship was within two leagues of the place where they dwelt.”
The concluding circumstances of this interesting return down the Hudson, will accompany another view in the series.
CATSKILL MOUNTAINS.
And, lo! the Catskills print the distant sky,
And o’er their airy tops the faint clouds driven,
So softly blending that the cheated eye
Forgets or which is earth or which is heaven.
Sometimes, like thunder-clouds, they shade the even,
Till, as you nearer draw, each wooded height