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Title: Rand
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946
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Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the sons of Alexander Hamilton. Its elevated position commands not only one of the most interesting river pictures in the Highlands, but overlooks the parade at West Point, so that the evolutions of the cadets at drill can easily be discerned from the piazza. F. B. James has a house near the river, just here; a little farther on live D. Heusted and E. A. Perkins, in the rear of the rocky cape called Little Stony Point; and just beyond Bull Hill, where a road zigzags down between it and the naked, purple cliffs of Breakneck, is Storm King Station, on the Hudson River Railroad, forming, in summer, the station, by ferry, for Cornwall. Cro Nest and Storm King.—All this time the massive, rounded crags of Crow Nest and Storm King mountains overshadow the river on the left, not leaving room even for the West Shore Railroad, which has partly hacked out a pathway along their bases. The former, now usually written Cro Nest, is an ancient name, probably borrowed from the red men, and simply notes the
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WEST POINT TO NEWBUEGH. 109 abundance of crows on that eminence, as Eagle Valley between Cro Nest and Storm King, was noted as a breeding place of eagles—a bird once extremely abundant all along the Hudson, and still often seen. The name Cro Nest is applied to the whole massive ridge fronting the river for two miles or more, and attaining a height at one point of 1,416 feet. Here, as elsewhere in the neighborhood, crack-brained speculators have searched for Capt. Kidds buried treasure, and the river front of the Cro Nest is called Kidds Plug Cliff, on the supposition that a mass of projecting rock, on the face of the precipice, formed a plug to the orifice where the pirates gold was hidden. THE CULPRIT FAY. Cro Nest is linked in English literature with Joseph Rodman Drakes fairy story in verse, The Culprit Fay. It was written in a spirit of bravado, when the author was only twenty-one years old, to sustain his contention that it was just as possible to place the scene of a romance among th

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