Near by are two other sheets of water, called the north and south lakes, connected with the Wepuck by a small stream ; the former containing thirty-seven acres, the latter sixty-six and a half, all are fed and supplied chiefly, (perhaps entirely,) by springs and rivulets from the great Wepuck mountain. Near the western shore is located the Waccabuck house kept by Mr. Rockwell Mead. The northern shore of the lake is bordered with hanging woods, and surrounded by rocky mountains of the most picturesque form, presenting altogether an interesting scene as the traveller approaches from Lower Salem. The hills on the southern shore are much lower, but equally attractive ; their bases being profusely covered with foliage to the very margin of the water. Its shores are also diversified with wooded points. A short distance from the southern shore of the Lake, on the land of Edwin Bouton, is the well-known angle of the oblong, where the Commissioners in 1734 erected a monument which they deemed twenty miles from Cortlandt Point (Verplanck) on the Hudson River. The fences still remain as they were laid out by the original proprietors of the adjoining lands. Lake Wepuck or Waccabuck was once famous for the abundance of its beavers (castor fiber.) It is upwards of fifteen years since, that the last solitary hermit was observed upon the edge of the lake. This animal had been noticed at different intervals throughout the summer of 1832. In the fall of that year a laboring man (residing near the lake) determined upon securing it if possible. For this purpose he took his station early one morning in the vicinity of one of the beaver's haunts. It soon made its appearance, and commenced felling a small tree, which it drew to the water's edge; but the man who had refrained from firing, in order to watch the motions of the animal, making a slight noise, it became alarmed, and suddenly plunged into the water,"