There are also some vestiges of Indian villages on the banks of the Armonck (Byram Lake.) A variety of Indian weapons -- such as Indian anchors, manufactured of stone, and large pestles, axes, and arrow heads of the same material, have been likewise found in this neighborhood.

The Indian burying ground is situated near Wampus Pond." In the south-east angle of the town is a beautiful hill, generally known by the name of Mount Misery,6 which acquired its present appellation from the fact that a large body of Indians were surprised and cut to pieces here by the Huguenots, in retaliation for a descent upon New Rochelle.

From the summit of this mount, (which is between two and three hundred feet above the valley,) on a clear day, may be seen the distant mountains beyond the Hudson, the hills of North Castle and Greenburgh, the village of White Plains, the country bordering the Soun1. as far as the eye can stretch, and the Bronx meandering through a rich and fertile valley -- the tout ensemble forming a scene truly beautiful and romantic. On the brow of the hill are the remains of a small fortification.

We have already shown that the Indian grant of 1640 embraced a large proportion (perhaps the whole) of the present town. Some of these lands must have subsequently reverted to the aborigines; for in 1660 we find the Indians again releasing them to John Richbell, of Mamaroneck. Upon the 19th of October, 1696, Caleb Heathcote obtained a further release from the Indian sachems, Wampus, Patthunck, and others, " of all that tract of land situate, lying and being in the County of Westchester, &c. ; bounded north by Croton River, easterly with Byram River and Bedford line, northerly by the land of John Harrison and his associates, and the line stretching to Byram River aforesaid, and westerly by the land of Frederick Philipse."" The above sale included the west patent of North Castle.