A large Indian bow now lies across a pair of magnificent mooseantlers over the main entrance door to the mansion, which was given, it is said, by that sachem to the first lord of the manor, and has been handed down to the present proprietor. But to return to our description of the house -- it has a high basement, a second story, which includes the principal apartments; and a third, lighted by dormer-windows. Around the front and ends of the mansion is a broad veranda, shaded by traila Still pn servpd at the manor house are various articles of Indian pottery, hatchets, pipes, pcsUcs, chopping knives and arrow heads all dug up in this vicinity at various dates.

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ing vines. From it the eye may take in, at a glance, Croton Bay (the Kitchtawan of the Indians so-called on account of the abundance of wild-fowl that frequented it), over which stretches the Hudson River Railway. Croton Point, so famous for its grapes and wine, and the broad expanse of the Tappan Sea, made classical by the genius of Irving ; and the Hudson River, with both its shores, as far down as Dobbs's Ferry on the east, and Point-no-point on the west. Turning to the right, and looking over Croton Point (se-was-qua), the high and rugged range of Tom Mountains, extending back of the village of Haverstraw, breaks upon the vision ; while in the foreground is seen Haverstraw Bay, famous with clustering associations of the treason of Arnold and the fate of Andre\