A PATH TO CHINA
A PHOTO JOURNY ALONG THE HUDSON RIVER

When Henry Hudson first set sail along the Hudson river he was confident it would lead him to China.

“It is proposed to present, in a series of sketches with pen and pencil, pictures of the Hudson River, from its birth among the mountains to its marriage with the ocean. It is by far the most interesting river in America, considering the beauty and magnificence of its scenery, its natural, political, and social history,the commercial wealth hourly floating upon its bosom, and the relations of its geography and topography to some of the most important events in the history of the Western hemisphere”

Benson J. Lossing. “the Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea”. 1866