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THE PALISADES.
At Fort Lee 300 feet.
Opposite Mt. St. Vincent 400 "
Opposite Hastings 500 "
THE HIGHLANDS.
Sugar Loaf 785 feet.
Dunderberg 865 "
Anthony's Nose 900 "
Storm King 1368 "
Old Cro' Nest1405 "
Bull Hill1425 "
South Beacon1625 "
THE CATSKILLS.
North Mountain3000 feet.
Plaaterkill3135 "
Outlook3150 "
Stoppel Point3426 "
Round Top3470 "
High Peak3660 "
Sugar Loaf3782 "
Plateau3855 "

Sources of the Hudson.—The Hudson rises in the Adirondacks, and is formed by two short branches. The northern branch (17 miles in length), has its source in Indian Pass, at the base of Mount McIntyre; the eastern branch, in a little lake poetically called the "Tear of the Clouds," 4,321 feet above the sea under the summit of Tahawus, the noblest mountain of the Adirondacks, 5,344 feet in height. About thirty miles below the junction it takes the waters of Boreas River, and in the southern part of Warren County, nine miles east of Lake George, the tribute of the Schroon. About fifteen miles north of Saratoga it receives the waters of the Sacandaga, then the streams of the Battenkill and the Walloomsac; and a short distance above Troy its largest tributary, the Mohawk. The tide rises six inches at Troy and two feet at Albany, and from Troy to New York, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, the river is navigable by large steamboats.