View Near Fort Miller (No. 10 (later changed to No. 9) of The Hudson River Portfolio)

"Fort Miller is a small village in the township of Argyle and Washington county; thirty-seven miles north of Albany, and thirteen south of Sandy-Hill...One of the characteristic beauties of the Hudson is, its varieties of islands, some stretching their lengthening and sinuous forms through the center of the channel, others creeping in all the grace of verdant loveliness, under the abrupt and lofty shores, and others lying on the surface of the waters like wooded knolls reposing on the bosom of an inland lake. Of the latter description there are several about Fort Miller, one of which the artist has judiciously introduced into his view."