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The Hudson Valley Travel Guide
In 1609 explorer Henry Hudson sailed his ship, the Half Moon, up the great river that would later bear his name. He was seeking a shortcut from Europe to spice-rich Asia, but instead found heady treasures of a different sort—plunging rock cliffs, lush green highlands, jagged black ridges, and massive granite domes. More than 200 years later, the untamed beauty of the Hudson River valley fueled the imaginations of America's early landscape painters. Today the valley's forces of nature retain every bit of their impact and majesty, and the region remains, as Hudson put it, "as pleasant a land as one can tread upon."
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