The Orphan's Victory

In one of the many beautiful spots which the traveller sees in making a voyage up the Hudson, stands the village of M--. It attracts the notice of all tourists, for it seems to occupy the very place in which a painter or a lover of the picturesque would have chosen to place it. Its inhabitants love to boast of its antiquity, for it was founded by the original Dutch settlers, and its present settlers are mostly their descendants.