I kan sell for eighteen hundred and thirty-nine dollars, a pallas, a
sweet and pensive retirement, lokated on the virgin banks ov the Hudson,
kontaining 85 acres. The land is luxuriously divided by the hand of
natur and art, into pastor and tillage, into plain and deklivity, into
stern abruptness, and the dallianse ov moss-tufted medder; streams ov
sparkling gladness, (thick with trout,) danse through this wilderness ov
buty, tew the low musik ov the kricket and grasshopper. The evergreen
sighs az the evening zephir flits through its shadowy buzzum, and the
aspen trembles like the luv-smitten harte ov a damsell. Fruits ov the
tropicks, in golden buty, melt on the bows, and the bees go heavy and
sweet from the fields to their garnering hives. The manshun iz ov Parian
marble, the porch iz a single diamond, set with rubiz and the mother ov
pearl; the floors are ov rosewood, and the ceilings are more butiful
than the starry vault of heavin. Hot and cold water bubbles and squirts
in evry apartment, and nothing is wanting that a poet could pra for, or
art could portray. The stables are worthy of the steeds ov Nimrod or the
studs ov Akilles, and its henery waz bilt expressly for the birds of
paradice; while somber in the distance, like the cave ov a hermit,
glimpses are caught ov the dorg-house. Here poets hav cum and warbled
their laze--here skulptors hav cut, here painters hav robbed the scene
ov dreamy landskapes, and here the philosopher diskovered the stun,
which made him the alkimist ov natur. Nex northward ov this thing ov
buty, sleeps the residense and domain ov the Duke John Smith; while
southward, and nearer the spice-breathing tropicks, may be seen the
barronial villy ov Earl Brown, and the Duchess, Widder Betsy Stevens.
Walls ov primitiff rock, laid in Roman cement, bound the estate, while
upward and downward, the eye catches far away, the magesta and slow
grander ov the Hudson. As the young morn hangs like a cutting ov silver
from the blu brest ov the ski, an angel may be seen each night dansing
with golden tiptoes on the green. (N. B. This angel goes with the
place.)