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| [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] |
| | [New Amsterdam] | [23] |
| | [The Dutch and the English] | [24] |
| | [New York] | [27] |
| | [A Page of Patriotism] | [28] |
| | [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] |