A path like a sheep walk leads up from the site of this memorable battle field to the top of " Indian Hill," which commands a very enviable view, being a wonderful assemblage of mountain, hill, and dale, woodland and water hardly equalled. The prospect is bounded to the south-east and east by the waters of the Sound, and light blue shores of Long Island, whither the Indians of yore carried on their fishing excur- - sions in the Summer season ; to the north and north-west far away for hundreds of miles, extend the Green Mountains, and still nearer to the west the majestic Highlands, bordering on the Hudson, from whence

(n) General Van. N. N.

(b) O'Callaghau's Hist, of N. N., p. 300-3.

THE TOWN OF BEDFORD.

came the dreaded Mohawk, above which towers the mighty Dundenburg, in olden times abounding in game which the Indians hunted for pleasure and subsistence, which, together with the beautiful valleys of the Myanos and the Muscoota or Beaver Dam and Cohamong hills, form a noble and extensive outline. The Myanos River (probably so named after the bold and warlike Mayano Sachem of Petuquapaen, killed by the celebrated Captain Daniel Patrick, Patroon of the Manor of Greenwich in 1643)* for three or four miles below the village is bordered by what is called the "River Hills," which are extremely picturesque and romantic; in some places its rocky and wooded banks are almost precipitous, one spot in particular called "Crow Rock," soon after which the landscape expands and the Myanos, released from its narrow bed, widens and continues its course until lost in the " Manunketesuck," or Sound near Cos Cob.