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\

Eastward of the mansion, and lying parallel with the Croton, is a spacious garden or pleasure-ground, rich with choice flowers and table delicacies. A long walk leads through this garden to the ancient "Ferry House," about which gather memories of incidents of the old war for Independence. A pleasant road up to the high bridge of the Croton at the old head of navigation -- a rickety structure, which seemed ready to tumble into the stream more than a dozen years ago. During the Revolutionary war there was no bridge between the mouth of the Croton and the old "Pine Bridge," until the "Continental" or "New Bridge" was erected, and that stood about a mile east of the present structure;* so that old "Pines Bridge" which crossed the Croton about a mile above the present dam, is the famous one so often spoken of in the narratives of events on the "Neutral Ground" during the war for Independence. This ancient Ferry did all the transportation between the latter region and the American lines. The bay is making rapid progress toward the condition of a salt meadow. In 1840, the swollen Croton River broke away the dam connected with the aqueduct by which New York city is supplied with water, and swept down into the bay, an enormous quantity of earth, on which occasion the river, directly opposite the mansion, rose suddenly to the height of eight feet above the ordinary tide level, while up the river about half a mile to the eastward, it exceeded fifty feet.