Thomas C. Harbaugh.
Under the base of these cliffs William Cullen Bryant one Sabbath morning wrote his beautiful lines:
"Cool shades and dews are round my way,
And silence of the early day;
Mid the dark rocks that watch his bed,
Glitters the mighty Hudson spread,
Unrippled, save by drops that fall
From shrubs that fringe his mountain wall;
And o'er the clear, still water swells