. Die New York Central und Hudson River Eisenbahn und die Rom, Watertown und Ogdenburg Eisenbahn .. . t auf der Ostseite des Hudson, gegenüber Catskill. Es befehlseinige der sublimcst Fluss Ansichten. Auf einer Art Terrasse, zweiundzwanzig hundert Fuß über dem Fluß, about13 Meilen zurück von ihm, und nahe dem Rand eines abrupten Abgrundes, wird das Gebirgshaus, ein geräumiges Gebäude errichtet, das für eine beträchtliche Entfernung entlang dem Fluß deutlich sichtbar ist. Die Kühle und exhilarat-ing Qualität der Luft, die Pracht der Aussicht, und die komfortable Unterkunft des Hotels, ziehen zahlreiche vis
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. The New York central and Hudson river railroad and the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdenburg railroad .. . t on the east side of the Hudson, opposite Catskill. It commandssome of the sublimcst river views. On a sort of terrace, twenty-two hundred feet above the river, about13 miles back from it, and near the edge of an abrupt precipice, is builtthe Mountain House, a spacious building, which is distinctly visiblefor a considerable distance along the river. The coolness and exhilarat-ing quality of the air, the grandeur of the view, and the comfortableaccommodations of the hotel, attract numerous visitors in the summer The mountain rises behind the hotel to a height of thirty-eight hundred feet above the river. One of the many attractions in the vicinityis the Catskill Falls. Kaaterskill Creek, a branch of Catskill Creek, starting high up in the mountain, as an outlet for two ponds, heredashes over two perpendicular precipices, one a hundred and the othereighty feet in height, and, passing through a precipitous and romanticravine, called The Clove, reaches the lower valley of the Hudson. 54 . )lIMMEf^*frsms CK ^7 NEW ()MK (i:Il;.M, l;. I MtOA 1). THE CATSKILI.S. The Cfitskill Mountains have pmliably been seen and admired, ifnot visited, by more travelers than any other mountain group on theAn:erican continent. Approaching within ten miles of a great naturalhighway, they have, since the earliest days of the settlement ofthe country, commanded the attention of all voyagers on the Hudsonliver, and, since the enormous increase of travel induced by modernmultiplication of railroads and steamboats, they are annually seen bvmillions and visited by thousands. Moreover, they have been celebrated in song and story, and one ofthe most popular and successful actors of our time has made Irvingscharacter of Kip Van Winkle, with the mountain region where he livedand slept, familiar to the English-speaking world. The group of sum-mits known under this name lies within the counties of
