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“bear mountain bridge”
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(the hudson river is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from ‘north’ to ‘south’ primarily through ‘eastern new york’ in the ‘united states’)
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(the river originates in the ‘adirondack mountains of ‘upstate new york’, flows through the ‘hudson valley’, and eventually drains into the ‘atlantic ocean, between ‘new york city + ‘jersey city’)
(the river serves as a ‘political boundary’ between the states of ‘new jersey’ and ‘new york’, and further north between ‘new york’ counties)
(the lower half of the river is a ‘tidal estuary’ occupying the ‘hudson fjord’, which formed during the most recent period of ‘north american glaciation’, estimated at 26,000 to 13,300 years ago)
(‘tidal waters’ influence the hudson’s flow from as far north as ‘troy’)
(the river is named after ‘henry hudson’ (an englishman sailing for the ‘dutch east india company’) who explored it in ‘1609’, and after whom canada’s ‘hudson bay’ is also named)
(it had previously been observed by italian explorer ‘giovanni da verrazzano’ sailing for ‘king francis I’ of france in 1524, as he became the first european known to have entered the ‘upper new york bay’, but he considered the river to be an ‘estuary’)
(the dutch called the river the north river – with the ‘delaware river’ called the ‘south river’ – and it formed the spine of the ‘dutch’ colony of ‘new netherland’)
(settlements of the colony clustered around the ‘hudson’, and its strategic importance as the gateway to the american interior led to years of competition between the ‘english’ and the ‘dutch’ over control of the ‘river’ and ‘colony’)
(during the eighteenth century, the river valley and its inhabitants were the subject and inspiration of ‘Washington Irving’, the first internationally acclaimed American author)
(in the 19th century, the area inspired the ‘Hudson River School’ of landscape painting, an American pastoral style, as well as the concepts of environmentalism and wilderness)
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(the ‘hudson’ was also the eastern outlet for the ‘erie canal’, which – when completed in ‘1825’ – became an important ‘transportation artery’ for the 1800s ‘united states’)
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*NYC*
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