Columbia University. Stately buildings on east bank.

St. Luke’s Hospital. Beautiful dome in the distance southeast of college.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, now in construction, will be one of the finest structures in the world.

General Grant’s Tomb at Riverside Drive and 123d Street.

129th Street Pier. Above this landing is the Steel Viaduct of the Boulevard Drive.

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  The land that from the rule of kings
    In freeing us itself made free,
  Our old world sister to us brings
    Her sculptured dream of liberty.

  John G. Whittier.

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Carmansville (where Audubon, the ornithologist lived), a city suburb at 152d Street.

Trinity Cemetery, 152d Street, and above this Audubon Park.

Old Fort Washington once crowned the hills on the east bank.  Fort Lee was almost opposite on the southern point of the Palisades.

Stewart Castle, east bank, formerly owned by A. T. Stewart.

University of City of New York with dome, in distance.

Inwood. Station on the Hudson River Railroad, above the heights.  Place once known as Tubbie Hook.

Palisades, on west bank, extend fifteen miles from Fort Lee to Piermont, a sheer wall of trap rock from 300 to 500 feet high.

Spuyten Duyvil, on east bank northern boundary of Manhattan Island.

Site of Fort Independence, east bank, on height north of Spuyten Duyvil.

Riverdale Station. Station on the Hudson River Railroad above Spuyten Duyvil.  Yonkers rising on the green slope to the north; and the Palisades blending in the far distance with green headlands of the Ramapo Range.

Convent of Mount St. Vincent. The gray, castle-like structure in front, was once the home of Edwin Forrest.

Yonkers, seventeen miles from Battery.

Greystone, on east bank, crowning hill, about one and a half miles north of Yonkers.  Once property of Samuel J. Tilden.

Hastings, pleasant village on east bank.

Indian Head (510 feet), opposite Hastings, highest point of Palisades.

Dobb’s Ferry, on east bank, named after an old Swedish ferryman.

Cottinet Place, on east bank, built of stone brought from France.  Easily distinguished by light shade through trees.

George L. Schuyler’s Residence, near east bank.  The late Col.  James A. Hamilton’s house almost east of Mr. Schuyler’s.  Stiner’s place distinguished by its large dome.

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  From this brow of rock
  That overlooks the Hudson’s western marge,
  I gaze upon the long array of groves,
  The piles and gulfs of verdure drinking in the grateful heat.

  William Cullen Bryant.