The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

It was a walk up on Hudson Street.

And there I was shacked up with Eileen in that filthy fourth floor attic on Hudson Street.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

One week before the convention, Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson, gazing at the opposite shore.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

( Later, it was to be called Hudson Strait.

Even Hudson, experienced in Arctic sailing and determined as he was, must have had qualms as he slid down the Thames.

It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.

) In 1610, Hudson was probably in his early forties, a good navigator, a stubborn voyager, but otherwise fatally unsuited to his chosen profession.

He was not the sort of sailor Hudson wanted his backers to see on board and he had Greene wait at Gravesend, where the Discovery picked him up.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

Hudson was free to sail on.

Hudson pointed the Discovery down the east coast of the newly discovered sea ( now called Hudson Bay ), confident he was on his way to the warm waters of the Pacific.

This was the bitter end, and Hudson seemed to know he was destined to failure.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

His contention was denied by several bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B. Jones of Houston, J. B. Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin.

Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.

According to Hosea Hudson, all those arrested were eventually released without trial due to public and international pressure — albeit too late to have a chance at raising a crop that year.

Additional public transportation service is augmented by dollar vans to the Hudson County Courthouse, Newport Mall, 42nd Street in Manhattan, and Paterson, New Jersey, The minibuses, locally known for their Spanish language name guagua, have come subject to greater scrutiny due to alleged safety issues.

In the late 2000s, Union City, West New York, Weehawken and North Bergen came to be dubbed collectively as " NoHu ", a North Hudson haven for local performing and fine artists, many of whom are immigrants from Latin America and other countries, in part due to lower housing costs compared to those in nearby art havens such as Hoboken, Jersey City and Manhattan.

In the 1960s, due to the influx of Cuban émigrés, the area became known as " Havana on the Hudson ", and since has become one of the United States cities with a majority Hispanic population.

In the late 2000s, West New York, Weehawken, Union City and North Bergen came to be dubbed collectively as " NoHu ", a North Hudson haven for local performing and fine artists, many of whom are immigrants from Latin America and other countries, in part due to lower housing costs compared to those in nearby art havens such as Hoboken, Jersey City and Manhattan.

Hillsdale is a popular area for second-home buyers from New York City, due in part to its proximity to two ski areas and the amenities of nearby Great Barrington, Mass., and Hudson, N. Y.

Many homes in Balmville are incredibly expensive due to their pristine views of the Hudson River.

Originally picked due to the abnormal S-curve in the Hudson at this point, it was founded by one of the best military engineers of the time, Polish General Tadeusz Kościuszko.

Teredo has recently caused several minor collapses along the Hudson River waterfront in Hoboken, New Jersey, due to damage to underwater pilings.

A third supporting expedition expected by General Burgoyne never materialized ( apparently due to miscommunication on that year's campaign goals ) when General William Howe sent his army to take Philadelphia rather than sending a portion of it up the Hudson River from New York City.

In Canada's Hudson Bay, important eider die-offs were observed in the 1990s by local populations due to quickly changing ice flow patterns.

Churchill on the Hudson Bay is a popular attraction due to the large polar bear and beluga whale population.

The Hudson discharge flows south along the coast due to coriolis force.

One of the sites, located 22 kilometers from Hudson ’ s Hope, was judged to be the best location due to its geography.

On November 12, 1990, trains were rerouted west of Alliance, Ohio, due to Conrail's desire to abandon part of the former PFW & C in northwestern Indiana ; the Capitol Limited now uses the former Pennsylvania Railroad Cleveland and Pittsburgh ( C & P ) line north from Alliance through Hudson, Ohio, to Cleveland route.

Along the line of the Hudson River Railroad, the High Line was built in 1934 in New York City as an elevated bypass to the existing street running trackage on Eleventh Avenue, at the time called " Death Avenue " due to the large number of accidents involving trains.

Democrats won five out of eight gubernatorial races between 1919 and 1940, more often than not due to massive landslides in Hudson County.

An example of the latter is the use of electric locomotives by Amtrak and commuter railroads in The Northeast ( e. g. New Jersey Transit New York corridor uses ALP-46 electric locomotives, due to the prohibition on diesel operation in the Hudson and East River Tunnels leading to Penn Station ).

Washington and much of his army crossed the Hudson River into New Jersey, and retreated all the way across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, shrinking due to ending enlistment periods, desertions, and poor morale.

Finding it difficult to settle in Bloomington — mainly due to the presence of several already established doctors — Silas moved his family to Hudson, Illinois the following year.

He advocated a canal to be built from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, and was among the Erie Canal Commissioners appointed in 1816 to supervise the canal construction, but resigned in 1818 due to ill health.

At about the border the PIP changes direction from due north along the Hudson River to a north-west direction.

Eastern Connecticut, originally inhabited by the Quinnipiac Nation ’ s sub-sachemships of the Eastern Nehantic, Podunk, and Wangunk, as well as the Narragansett, suffered more losses than western Connecticut, and so in 1506, after 80 % population losses due to epidemics, the Pequotoog moved into the area from the upper Hudson region and pushed the survivors of the Narragansett into what is now Rhode Island, and the Nehantic wedged in close to the Connecticut River ( Old Lyme ).