Ichabod crane or, the legend of Sleepy Hollow  by Washington Irving   found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker    A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,   Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; and of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky.CASTLE OF INDOLENCE

In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson,at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail,