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  In love to the deep-bosomed stream of the west
  I fling this loose blossom to float on its breast.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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[Transcriber’s Note—­Errata (Old Typos) and Corrections

   TOC:—­
      Entries for “New Amsterdam” and “The Dutch and the English”
        reversed, and page number for New Amsterdam changed from 25 to 23. 
      Page number for “New York” changed from 26 to 27. 
      Page number for “Yonkers to West Point” changed from 59 to 60. 
      Changed:  ‘97-104’ to ‘97-103’, to match entry. 
      Changed:  ‘152’ (1st listing) to ‘151’, to match entry. 
      Page number for “Source of the Hudson” changed from 201 to 202. 
      Changed:  ‘Colombia County’ to ‘Columbia Springs’, to match entry. 
   Page 9:  Restored missing period and missing half of closing quote.
     [Illustration:  Hendrick Hudson’s “Half Moon.”]
   Page 35:  added ‘s’ to ‘landing’ (...steamers make their various
      landings.)
   Page 43:  removed extraneous closing quote. 
   Page 46:  added comma after ‘erection’ (..., now in process of
      erection, ...)
   Page 55:  added ‘s’ to ‘make’ (forgetting even, as Bryant did, that a
     vertical line from the top of the cliff on account of the crumbling
     debris of ages make(s) it impossible for even the strongest arm to
     hurl a stone from the summit to the margin of the river). 
   Page 59:  missing closing quote, and possibly also missing text in
     paragraph?
      (one narrator says:  “remarkable disappearances ...)
   Page 76:  changed ‘materal’ to ‘material’. 
   Page 80:  changed ’Revoluton’to ‘Revolution’. 
   Page 94:  added missing comma after ‘library’:  “The Library, founded
     in 1812, has about 50,000 volumes.” 
   Page 95:  changed ‘Seige’ to ‘Siege’"...  Siege Battery on the slope....” 
   Page 96:  changed ‘pictureque’ to ‘picturesque’. 
   Page 107:  changed (Major Tench) ‘Tighlman’ to ‘Tilghman’. 
   Page 107:  added opening quote ..."the proclamation of Congress and
      the farewell orders of Washington were read, and the last word
      of command given.” 
   Page 108/9:  changed ‘proclams’ to ‘proclaims’. 
   Page 110:  changed:  ‘The Marquis De Chastelleaux’ to ’The Marquis De
     Chastellux’ (ref.:  google)
   Page 113:  changed:  ‘The Marquis De Chastelleux’ to ’The Marquis De
     Chastellux’
   Page 125:  added ‘s’ to ‘thousand’ (thousands of young men)
   Page 129:  (While sunset gilds) ‘theee’, to ‘thee’,
   Page 139:  changed ‘openng’ to ‘opening’. 
   Page 145:  changed ‘Sofly’ to ‘Softly’. 
   Page 153:  changed ‘communicaton’ to ‘communication’. 
   Page 153:  added closing quote (in about 32 hours.”)
   Page 155:  changed ‘wth’ to ‘with’
   Page 173:  changed ‘thousand’