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These peep out from amongst the trees, and give to the sides of the river something of the appearance of the wooded hills that rise from the Lake of Como, whose sides are studded with similar villas, though the former want the extreme brilliancy of colouring which is so charming a characteristic of the latter. The river is navigable for 150 miles from its mouth, and opens out here and there into lakes five or six miles wide, like the Tappan Zee, nearly forty miles from its mouth, where the rive...r attains its greatest breadth and then contracts again. In an American landscape there would be a strong resemblance to English scenery, were it not for the nearly total absence of hedges. The snake- fence here takes the place of the briar and the thorn objects which are as ornamental in a land- scape as they are useful on a farm. The American coast, too, is low, monotonous, and tame, compared with that which borders our own country. But the feature peculiar to the New World, to which nothing in Europe possesses any resemblance, is the glorious autumn tints of the woods brilliant I 114 New York to Niagara.
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