At one time it was occupied by four or five English soldiers, who, returning after a raid, amused themselves by hacking with their swords the doorway casings. The front door has five or six deep hacks now, and the inner door two. In the south sitting-room is a door leading into the kitchen with a small pane of glass inserted in it, which was used in old times when slaves were kept to peep occasionally at the little darkies, especially when there was any disturbance.

In the west room of the house General Washington had several times passed hours, in consultation with his officers and other friends of the cause of liberty; and we can easily imagine him ascending the summit of* the hill and there standing wrapped in thought and prayer, during those dark and glomy days of the Revolution, and looking and planning for the future. He could there look down on Arnold's treason and Andre's forlorn and desperate venture, and wonder at the mysterious ways of providence that lead to its defeat.

The road leading north from the county house, passes near the celebrated Raven Rock, around which cluster a thousand strange stories and superstitions The rock is said to have derived its name from the fact, that it was once the favorite haunt of that ominous bird, whose hoarse croakings were believed to prognosticate approaching ill. The ferocious wife of Macbeth, on being advised of the approach of Duncan, whose death she had conspired, is made to say in the language of the poet :