On George's Island, about one-half a mile above Cruger's, there are three brick yards employing about one hundred and twenty men, and occupied by William Tompkins, paying about $25,000. A little to the north of this are two more brick yards, owned and occupied by Orrin Frost, employing about eighty men, and paying out about $20,000 during the season. On the turnpike leading to Peekskill is the hamlet of Boscobel; here is a Methodist Episcopal church erected in 1868, of which the Rev. Mr. Blake is the present pastor. The celebrated Lieutenant William Mosier, or Moshcr, of the Revolution, formerly resided in this neighborhood. His brother Abel Mosher, left a son Daniel whose son is the present Isaac Mosher of Boscobel.

• A small mountain stream enters the Hudson near Boscobel called the Furnace brook, upon which stood the manorial mills, long since superseded by Ramsay's mill now owned by Mr. Phelps above Crugers; crowning the bold banks of the mountain torrent is situated the Cortlandt Furnace, which has given name not only to the brook but to an extensive tract of forest, consisting of 1,500 acres called the " Furance Wood," on the borders of which are numerous peat beds.

• In the year 1760 a mining company was established in England, and German miners employed for the purpose of obtaining and smelting iron ore in this vicinity. It would appear, however, that the ore was not found here in sufficient abundance ; for, at a vast expense, we find it subsequently transported from the Queensburg mine, in the forest of Dean, Rockland county, by the route of King's ferry, and melted in this furnace. But even in Rockland County the ore was not found in sufficient quantities to render it of any importance, so that prior to the Revolution, the enterprise was wholly abandoned, and the property sold to Mr.