A ferry from Tivoli to Saugerties affords communication between the two villages.  Glasco Landing, on the west bank, lies between the residences of Henry Corse, on the south, and Mrs. Vanderpool (sister of the late President Martin Van Buren), on the north.

In locating the residences along the river and dealing so often in the words “north” and “south,” we are reminded of a good story of Martin Van Buren.  It is said that it was as difficult to get a direct answer from him as from Bismarck or Gladstone.  Two friends were going up with him one day on a river boat and one made a wager with the other that a direct answer could not be secured on any question from the astute statesman.  They approached the ex-president and one of them said, “Mr. Van Buren, my friend and I have had a little discussion; will you tell us, does or does not the sun rise in the east?” The ex-president calmly drew up a chair, and said, “You must remember that the east and west are merely relative terms.”  “That settles it,” said the questioner, “I’ll pay the bet.”

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  How grateful is the sudden change
    From arid pavements to the grass,
  From narrow streets that thousands range
    To meadows where June zephyrs pass.

  Henry T. Tuckerman.

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It is a drop for the old Hudson, and a merry time it has until it gets down off the mountains.  I have thought how long it would be before that very water which was made for the wilderness will be under the bottom of a vessel and tossing in the salt sea.

    James Fenimore Cooper.

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=Saugerties=, 101 miles from New York.  From its location (being the nearest of the river towns to the Catskills), it naturally hoped to secure a large share of tourist travel, but Kingston and Catskill presented easier and better facilities of access and materially shortened the hours of arrival at the summit.  Plaaterkill Clove, wilder and grander than Kaaterskill Clove, about nine miles west of the village, has Plaaterkill Mountain, Indian Head, Twin Mountains and Sugar Loaf on the south, and High Peak and Round Top on the north.  Its eighteen waterfalls not only give great variety to a pedestrian trip, but also ample field for the artist’s brush.  The Esopus, meeting the Hudson at Saugerties, supplies unfailing waterpower for its manufacturing industries, prominent among which are the Sheffield Paper Company, the Barkley Fibre Company (wood pulp), the Martin Company (card board) and a white lead factory.  There are also large shipments of blue stone, evidences of which are seen in many places near at hand along the western bank.  Many attractive strolls near Saugerties invite the visitor, notably the walk to Barkley Heights south of the Esopus.  An extensive view is obtained from the West Shore Railroad station west of the village and the drive thereto.  North of Saugerties will be seen the docks and hamlets of Malden, Evesport and West Camp, also the residences of J. G. Myers to the northwest of the Rock islet, and of H. T. Coswell, near which the steamer passes to the west of Livingston Flats.  The west shore at West Camp was settled by exiles from the Palatinate, about 1710, and one of the old churches still stands a short distance inland.  We are now in the midst of—­