The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ard the close of apleasant day. Its nearest approach to the river is at One Hundred andFifteenth Street, at which point our little sketch was taken. Among the places of note on the Bloomingdale Eoad is the New YorkAsylum for the Insane, Elm Park, and the New York Orphan former is situated on the east side of the road where it approachesnearest the Hudson, the grounds, containing forty acres, occupying theentire square between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, and One Hundredand Fifteenth and One Hundred and Twentieth Streets. The institution TH
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ard the close of apleasant day. Its nearest approach to the river is at One Hundred andFifteenth Street, at which point our little sketch was taken. Among the places of note on the Bloomingdale Eoad is the New YorkAsylum for the Insane, Elm Park, and the New York Orphan former is situated on the east side of the road where it approachesnearest the Hudson, the grounds, containing forty acres, occupying theentire square between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, and One Hundredand Fifteenth and One Hundred and Twentieth Streets. The institution THE HUDSON. 389 was opened ia the year 1821, for the reception of patients. It may beconsidered a development of the Lunatic Asylum founded in 1810. Itsestablishment upon more rational principles is due to the benevolentThomas Eddy, a Quaker, who proposed to the governors of the oldinstitution a course of moral treatment more thorough and extensive thanhad yet been tried. The place selected for the asylum, near the village of Bloomingdale, is. VIEW ON BLOOMINGDALE EOAD. unequalled. The ground is elevated and dry, and affords extensive anddelightful views of the Hudson and the adjacent city and country. Thebuildings are spacious, the grounds beautifully laid out, and ornamentedwith shrubbery and flowers, and every arrangement is made with a viewto soothe and heal the distempers of the mind. The patients are allowed 390 THE HUDSON. to busy themselves with work or chosen amusements, to walk in thegarden or pleasure-grounds, and to ride out on pleasant days, properdiscrimination being always observed. A short distance below the Asylum for the Insane, on the east side ofthe Bloomingdale Eoad, is the fine old country seat of the Apthorpefamily, called Elm Park. It is now given to the uses of mere devoteesof pleasure. Here the Germans of the city congregate in great numbers
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