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Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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eler thinks the outlook from his car window the chiefest ofthe river sights. The foot of the hills being cut away for the railnthere is little to be seen on the land side. One knows, in-deed, that there arc Places far up above, for all the worldhas heard of the splendors of the Hudson River palaces. Butthey are so far above the train that one can not so much ascatch a glimpse of them, and unless a deliberate journey ismade among the beautiful roads ol Westchester County they
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The Echo Portico Overlooking the River sades beyond in furthest Jersey are so boundlessly attractivethat many, no doubt, think these sights are the chief pointsof interest in the country through which they are traveling. In a sense this is true, for the overlook here is world-famous and one of the most beautiful in America. It is ascene of wonderful majesty and penetrating beauty, of sharpcontrasts, too, for where else is the laughing water so broadlybrilliant beneath such a frowning background as the JerseyPalisades? In itself well worth the journey, even thoughnothing else be seen, it is little to be wondered at if the trav- are apt to be little more than a name. We know they arethere because they must be there; but of visual evidence frombelow there is none at all. Yet the train-traveler, as he pursues his journey on therivers edge, has a glimpse of the nature-beauty that the for-tunate residents on the river front have always. Surely if itis fine to see this marvelous spectacle of

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