As soon as Major Tallmadge saw the prisoner, and especially when he observed his manner of walking to and fro on the floor, and turning on his heel to retrace his steps, he was struck with his military deportment, and conceived that he had been bred to arms. Jameson gradually came into the same way of thinking, though there fs no proof of his confidence in Arnold having been shaken ; but he agreed with Tallmadge, that it was best to keep Anderson in close custody -- till something more should be known about him, or till orders should be received from Arnold or General Washington." From North Castle the prisoner was subsequently removed to Lower Salem.6

The hills which lie along the western side of the town present a very rough and rocky appearance, and in some places rise to considerable height.

a Spark's Life of Benedict Arnold, 226, 7, 8, 9, 30, 31, 32, 33. 6 See Lewisboroujfh.

THE TOWN OF NORTH CASTLE.

Upon the edge of one of them is a remarkable split rock, which was, in all probability, rent asunder ages ago, by some convulsion of nature. The gap is commonly called Brimstone Alley. Hard by is a dismal cavern, styled the Devil's Den. In the north-easterly corner of the town lies the Dark Valley, a part of which falls within the limits of New Castle. From the gloomy woods of this valley issues the northern branch of the Bronx.* On the east side of the Dark Valley rises Whippoor-will Hill, an appellation given to it on account of its being a haunt of that wellknown bird.6 "The notes of this solitary bird, (observes Wilson, the ornithologist,) from the ideas which are naturally associated with them, seem like the voice of an old friend, and are listened to by almost all with great interest.