The house is delightfully seated on a rising ground backed with luxuriant woods. The surrounding scenery is exceedingly picturesque, particularly on the west overlooking the Kisco and Croton vallies, and the hills bordering the Hudson. Among these is the distant Dunderberg. A sunset view from this place is uncommonly grand. The interior of the mansion contains a number of excellent portraits. These consist of the Hon. John Jay, head by Stewart, Stephen Van Rensselaer, by ditto,

»■ Van der Donk's Hist. N. N. New York Hist. Soc. collect, b Book of Co. Roads, Co. Clerk's office, lib. L. A. D. 1728. « Van der Douk's N. N.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Hon. Egbert Benson by dilto, Augustus Jay, co))y from an old French picture, Mrs. Balch by West, and a bust of the Hon John Jay after a model by (.^arrncio.^

The following notice of the death of the Hon. Jolin Jay occurs in Hammond's Political History of the state.

" The venerable John Jay died on the 17ih of May, at his mansion in Bedford, at the advanced age of ei<^hty three years. Although he had been "long remembered," he was not entirely forgotten. The Supreme Court being in session in New York, the gentlemen of the bar, held a meeting, of which David B. Ogden was chairman, and John Suydam was secretary, and at wliich a committee was appointed, consisting of Greene C. Bronson, Jan^es Tallmadge, J. A. Spencer, D. S. Jones, G. Griffin, and J. J. Rosevelt, who reported among others the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted :