FROM KINGS BRIDGE TO “THE FERRY AT CRAWLIER, OVER AGAINST ALBANY,” BEING AN ACCOUNT OF A JAUNT ON FOOT MADE AT SUNDRY CONVENIENT TIMES BETWEEN MAY AND NOVEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE HINE'S ANNUAL, 1905 BOOK I. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1906, by C.G. Hine , in the office of the Librarian at Congress, Washington, D.C....

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The Hudson Valley, above all other places in this country, combines historic and romantic interest with the beauties of nature. It is one hundred and fifty miles crowded with the splendors of mountain and forest and river, and replete with incident and legend. To quote George William Curtis: "Its morning and evening reaches are like the lakes of a dream." Everyone who visits New York comes or goes, if possible, by the river route. Few know much of anything, however, about the Old Post Road, that

In 1703 the Provincial Legislature passed a "Publick Highways" act, part of which reads as follows:— "Publick and Common General Highway to extend from King's Bridge in the County of Westchester through the same County of Westchester, Dutchess County and the County of Albany, of the breadth of four rods, English measurement, at the least, to be, continue and remain forever, the Publick Common General Road and Highway from King's Bridge aforesaid to the ferry at Crawlier over against the city of