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Identifier: rand07inge (find matches)
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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outs densely in the shallow coves all along the Hudson, encir-cling their margins with bands of bright magenta pink, amidwhich glow here and there the more fiery standards of thecardinal flower. Black Greek is a lively little river that merits its name, for itswater is stained with the roots and bark of hemlock and cedaruntil it looks like an outlet of the juniper jungles of the DismalSwamp. It rises down beyond Marlborough, and flows north,behind Mount Hymettus, expanding into a pond which the Dutchcalled Grote Binnewater (Big Pond) and the moderns nameBlack Pond, and frets its way down innumerable waterfallsand through deeps and shadows until it escapes here at EsopusVillage. It contains a fair quantity of black bass, perch, andsunfish, harbors a good many copperheads, and still turns thewheels of small mills, hidden away in the brush, as it used to do inthe good old days of the Dutch. The road which leads backover the hills from West Park strikes it in its most picturesquepart. iS^
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KAATERSKILL FALLS POUGHKEEPSIE TO KINGSTON. 141 The name Esopus is one that is met with often and ratherconfusingly in this part of the country. The hills on the westtake the appellation, and the island opposite, but the marshyEsopus Meadows are some three miles north of Esopus Light-house. Esopus Village and landing are here at the mouth ofBlack Creek; while Esopus Creek empties into the Hudsontwenty miles north at Saugerties; and Rondout Creek, at Kondout,used to be called the Little Esopus. This confusion arises, as will be clear when the history ofKingston is read, from the fact that in early colonial days thewhole district on the western side of the river, of which Kings-ton was the center, was known as Esopus—a Dutch and Englishcorruption of an Indian word, the earliest spelling of which wasDesopus. By this time, Krum Elbow has blotted out the Poughkeepsiebridge and the southern highlands, Mount Hymettus is wellbehind us on the west, and its continuation, the Shaiqjeneak, andH

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