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Excerpt from A Description of the Cities, Townships, and Principal Villages and Settlements, Within Thirty Miles of the City of New-York: Being a Guide to the Most Fashionable Resorts, and Watering Places in the Vicinity; Accompanied by a Correct Map
The village of bergen, 2 miles west of Jersey City, is situated on the summit of Bergen ridge This is an old settled place, supposed to have been first peopled by Danes, who accompanied the Hollanders to this country in 1616. It now contains a Dutch Reformed Church and about 30 dwellings. Hoboken, with its pleasant retreats and shady walks, delightfully situated on the banks of the Hudson, has long and deservedly been celebrated as a favorite place of resort. On reaching the shore at Hoboken, you rise a gentle as cent to a lawn in front of a large and commodious inn. The lawn is shaded with noble elms and other wholesome trees, under which the visiter may generally find a fresh and invigorating sea - breeze, and have choice refreshments brought to his seat, if desired. Here, throwing aside all care, people of every grade in society, meet of a summer's day, when the heat of the city is oppressive, Some days there are not less than 10, 000 visiters on the ground, from lisping infancy to decreptitude, all in search of health and pleasure. The walks extend along the bank of the river for about a mile, when you reach the Elysian Fields, which together with the attractions of Hoboken, is beauti fully described by the late Samuel L. Knapp, Esq. In part II, of the Picturesque Beauties of the Hudson river and its Vicinity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
