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Title: The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wiley, William Halsted, 1842-1925 Wiley, Sara King, 1871-1909
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Publisher: London, Offices of "Engineering" New York, J. Wiley & sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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stance, and the gilded dome of the World building shining out overthe irregular roofs of the city. At Weehawken we entered our specialtrain and sped out across the Jersey meadows, the birthplace but, unfortu-nately, not the abiding place, of the world-famed mosquito. As we flewalong, the gaunt lines of telegraph poles seemed to stalk away across thebrown stretches of plain to the low hills on the horizon. For a shortdistance our way lay through fertile New Jersey, just springing into greenlife, with the farmers ploughing in the fields; then we passed into NewYork, and as we issued from a tunnel near Nyack, a view of the Hudsonburst upon us, an expanse like the sea, bounded by lines of green hills,Storm King opposite shelving to the waters edge, and an outlook down thesweeping curves of the river, where the mountains seemed to open to let itpass and to stand aside one behind the other. This is aptly called the Gateof the Hudson, and here in earlier times stretched that iron chain which
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