The New York And Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to the Ferry At Crawlier
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, fare limited to 4 pence per mile, trips once a week. Right here it is interesting to note that in 1866 Lossing wrote of the Hudson River Railway that "more than a dozen trains each way pass over portions of the road in the course of twenty-four hours. " Nevis is little more than a cross-roads. Claremont a strag- gling village of no moment ; further on the road crosses the Roelofif Jansen Kill over a bridge that looks as though it must have heard the rumble of many a stage coach. Some newspape...r antiquarian says : — "Kill seems to be a Low Dutch word of American coinage. I have never found the word kill for brook in Low Dutch or Low German writings. I think they originally pronounced it 'kiill' (cool), and to a people transplanted from a low country to a mountainous one, where the water of the brooks was cool even 76 JOHNSTOWN. in midsummer, the suggestion may be plausible. The Low Dutch have 'vliet' (fleet) for stream. The German for streaming is 'stromen. ' Hamburg has its numerous fleets or canals.
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