as he passed into another, (Haverstraw,) and viewed the insuperable barriers of mountains that lay before him, he considered his discovery terminated, until, in searching for a passage, he found one which proved to be the continuation of a river, now serpentining in its course, deepening and narrowing, until it brought him to ' where the land grew very high and mountainous.' Here he anchored for the ensuing night. a This was directly opposite West Point."

Diirino^ the revolutionary war two British vessels were sunk in the race directly opposite Fort. Independence. Abont thirty years since, several cannon were raised from these vessels by the aid of the diving bell.

f In the northwest corner of Cortlandtown is situated '' Antonie's Neus," or St. Anthony's Nose, a well known peak of the Highlands.

General Van Cortlandt, the present proprietor of the Nose, gives the following origin of that name : --

" Before the Revolution a vessel was passing up the river under the command of a Capt. Hogans. When immediately opposite this mountain, the mate looked rather quizzically, first at the mountain and then at the captain's nose. The captain, by the way, had an enormous nose, which was not unfrequently the subject of good natured remark ; and he at once understood the mate's allusion. ' What,' says the captain, 'does that look like my nose? -- call it then, if you please, Antony's Nose.' The story was repeated on shore, and the mountain thenceforward assumed the name, and has thus become an everlasting monument to the memory of the redoubtable Capt. Antony Hogans and his nose.'"iJ