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There was frost on the deck and an air - & after that a sun - good God, man, you don't know what you are missing!
I thought N.Y. and the Hudson, the buildings, piers &c. would seem big, but they seemed twice as big & immediately more beautiful than [[strikethrough]] I expected as we slowly drew up to the dock.