The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea (1866) (14783020295)

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Title: The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea

Year: 1866 (1860s)

Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

Subjects: Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Description and travel Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History

Publisher: New York : Virtue & Yorston

Contributing Library: New York Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r and the railway. Tliey belong to a Stock Company. The chief business is the conversion of thecrude iron ore into pigs ready for the manufacturers use. Two kinds of ore are used—hematite fromWest Stockbridge, and mngnetic from the Forest of Dean, ilines, in the Hudson Highlands. They pro-duce about 16,000 tons of pig-ii-on annually. THE HUDSON. 149 and own and occupy ten thousand acres of land, all of which susceptibleof tillage is in a state of highest cultivation. The sect or society of thissingular people originated in England a little more than one hundredyears ago. Ann Lee, the young wife of a blacksmith, who had borneseveral children, conceived the idea that marriage was impure and sinful.She found disciples, and after being persecuted as a fanatic for severalyears, she professed to have had a direct revelation that she was the femalemanifestation of the Christ upon earth, the male manifestation having beenJesus, the Deity being considered a duality—a being composed of both

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VIEW AT KATZ-KILL LANDING. S3xes. She was, and still is, called Mother Ann, and is revered by herfollowers with a feeling akin to worship. With a few of them she cameto America, planted the church a few miles from Albany, at a placecalled ISTiskayuna, and there died. There are now eighteen distinctcommunities of this singular people in the United States, the aggregatemembership numbering little more than four thousand. The communityat ISew Lebanon is the most perfect of all in its arrangements, and therethe hierarchy of the Millennial Church reside. Their strange forms 150 THE HUDSON. of worship, consisting chiefly in singing and dancing; their quaintcostume, their simple manners, their industry and frugality, the perfectionof all their industrial operations, their chaste and exemplary lives, andthe unsurpassed beauty and picturesqueness of the country in which theyare seated, render a visit to the Shakers of Lebanon a long-to-be-remembered event in ones life. About six miles beloAV H

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