2-752-330 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Hudson at "Cozzens's"', 1874. Cozzen's Hotel at West Point on the River Hudson, New York State, USA: 'Cozzens's, that familiar and great resort of summer pleasure-seekers, perched high on the brow of the cliff that is the most prominent on the western shore for several miles below the Military Academy. Nothing could be more picturesque than the situation of the great building of the hotel, high up in air, looking down upon all the noblest of the river-views. It is several hundred feet above the water...the precipice is here so bold and rugged that the most practised eye is deceived by its appearance of great height...one may deceive himself into the belief that he looks upon some legend-haunted ruin near the Rhine or the Neckar, so picturesquely are the out-lines of this commonplace old structure by the Cozzens's Landing shaped and scarred by time and weather'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]