This place is remarkable for a very distant echo, the true object of which appears to be the opposite residence of Heathcote Hill. In the still dewy evenings of summer when the air is very elastic, and a dead stillness prevails, every word spoken in the neighboring house is plainly re-echoed from the northern bank. " Echo (says White) has always been so amusing to the imagination, that the poets have personified her; and, in their hands, she has been the occasion of many a beautiful fiction. Nor need the gravest

JOHN PETEK DE LANCEY, born in the City of New York. 15 July, 1753, died at Mamaroneck 31 Jaiiuary, 1828.

JOHN PETEK DE LANCEY, born 8 August, 1758, died 7 May, 1S20.

ELIZABETH DE LANCEY,

wife of

THOMAS JAMES DE LANCEY, born

August 12, 1789, died Dec'r. 28tb, 1S22.

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THE TOWN OF MAMARONECK.

man be ashamed to appear taken with such a phenomenon, since it may become the subject of philosophical or mathematical inquiries. "a

Several members of the Nelson family are interred north of this residence. Upon the only tombstone remaining, are chiselled two open hands pointing to a heart, with the following inscription :

PAL YCARPVS NELSON WAS BORN JBi

IVLY 21 ABOT A • CLOCK • IN • THE ■ MO RNING • IN • THE ■ YEAR 1688 • I • FINNIST ■ MY ■ CORS AND • QVIT • TIIE • LAND • IN . WITNES • HEREOF • MY • HART ■ MY HAND • DESESED ■ DESEMBER . 19 1738.