Hudson River

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Hudson River

A river rising in the Adirondack Mountains of northeast New York and flowing about 510 km (315 mi) generally southward to Upper New York Bay at New York City.
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Hudson River

n
(Placename) a river in E New York State, flowing generally south into Upper New York Bay: linked to the Great Lakes, the St Lawrence Seaway, and Lake Champlain by the New York State Barge Canal and the canalized Mohawk River. Length: 492 km (306 miles)
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Noun1.Hudson River - a New York riverHudson River - a New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson early in the 17th century
Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
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You expected to see her colossal figure loom through that reeking blue cloud of smoke from frying fat just as you expect the Palisades to appear through a drifting Hudson River fog.
On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken possession of that region many years before, and called it New Netherlands.
{Highlands = the Hudson Highlands, a mountainous region in Putnam and Dutchess Counties, through which the Hudson River passes in a deep and picturesque gorge; Eolus = God of the winds; Boreas = God of the North wind; Seneca = one of the Finger Lakes in central New York State; Grecian king = both the Senecas of antiquity, the rhetorician (54 BC-39 AD) and his son the philosopher/statesman (4 BC-65 AD), were, of course, Romans--in any case, Lake Seneca is named after the Seneca nation of the Iroquois Indians; Park-Place = already in 1816 a fashionable street in lower Manhattan; Chippewa = an American army defeated the British at Chippewa, in Canada near Niagara Falls, on July 5, 1814; Lawrence = Captain James ("Don't give up the ship!") Lawrence (1781-
At the highest the effect was that of a concave relief map; Bert saw the dark and crowded land everywhere intersected by shining waters, saw the Hudson River like a spear of silver, and Lower Island Sound like a shield.
Also arrange with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern to take 'Constance' on New York Central and Hudson River Buffalo to Albany, and B.
The Limited whirled the "Constance" into Buffalo and the arms of the New York Central and Hudson River (illustrious magnates with white whiskers and gold charms on their watch-chains boarded her here to talk a little business to Cheyne), who slid her gracefully into Albany, where the Boston and Albany completed the run from tide-water to tide-water - total time, eighty-seven hours and thirty-five minutes, or three days, fifteen hours and one half.
There he imbibed his first love of adventure, listening, as be says in 'Redburn,' while his father 'of winter evenings, by the well-remembered sea-coal fire in old Greenwich Street, used to tell my brother and me of the monstrous waves at sea, mountain high, of the masts bending like twigs, and all about Havre and Liverpool.' The death of his father in reduced circumstances necessitated the removal of his mother and the family of eight brothers and sisters to the village of Lansingburg, on the Hudson River. There Herman remained until 1835, when he attended the Albany Classical School for some months.
released two new animations depicting the Portal North Bridge and Hudson River Tunnels projects at completion.The Gateway Program Development Corp.
Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the War of American Independence.
On October 3, officials from DEC and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, and dedicated a new Tide Station at Turkey Point to monitor tide and water level data on the river.
Developer Douglas Durst and the City Club of New York had spent years dragging the park plan through a legal quagmire, arguing that it was a pricey threat to the Hudson River eco-system.
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