Surrounding the house are ornamental grounds tastefully laid out in flower-beds and shrubbery, and to the left is a fine kitchen garden and green-houses.

Opposite the homestead in the Katonah wood is situated the handsome stone residence of Henry Edward Pellew, Esq. (grandson of Edmund Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, England,) brother-in-law of the Hon. John Jay.

A little East of the Jay homestead, flows Spruce Creek, the former division line between the "Vineyards" and the "Dibble" purchases.

North and East of Cantetoe lies the valley of the Peppeneghek or Cross River, celebrated for its picturesque beauty ; on this romantic stream is situated the Jay Mills, now owned by the Hoyt brothers.

Katonah is a thriving village in the North-west corner of Bedford, situated near the junction of the Croton and Cross Rivers. Upon the latter stream are located several mills and manufactories. The Cross River or Peppeneghek is said to discharge at the rate of nine millions one hundred and forty thousand four hundred gallons per diem.

The settlement contains two churches, a Methodist Episcopal and

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Presbyterian, Rail Road and Telegraph station, Post Office and several stores.

The Methodist Episcopal church which is a new edifice, was erected in 1S78, and was incorporated on the 25th of January, 1837; Norman William Miller, Walter P. Lyon, Joseph Wilson, Joel W. Miller and Noah Smith, Trustees.0

The Peppeneghek and the Cisqua intersect a mile to the eastward. Previous to the erection of the Croton dam, the shad fish annually ascended the river to Katonah or Wittlockville, a distance of nearly thirty miles from the Hudson ; trout are taken here in great abundance. The several tributaries of the Kitchawan or Croton in this town supply a great abundance of mill seats. There is also a small 'stream that runs north from the ullage of Bedford to Long Island Sound (to which we have already alluded) called Myanos River.