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

The elevation of Antony's Nose is one thousand two hundred and twenty eight feet from the level of the river, and directly opposite Fort Montgomery Creek. From here to Fort Montgomery, which is now in ruins on the opposite side, a large boom and chain was extended during the revolutionary war, which cost about seventy thousand pounds sterling. It was partly destroyed by Gen. Sir Henry Clinton in October, 1777."

a Moulton's Hist. N. Y., 2.38-39.

b See Washington Irving's story of the Dutch governor's voyage up the Hudson,

■= Letters about the Hudson.

94 HISTORY OF THE

"In the year 1672 (says Dnnlap) orders arrived to Governor Lovelace to put the Province in a state of defence. Upon this occasion a small fort was to be erected at Antony's Nose, or near it, on the north river."a

A tribe of Indians named the Wabingi occupied the highlands called by them Kettatenny Mountains. Their principal settlement, (designated Wickapy,) was situated in the vicinity of Antony's Nose.''

Four miles south of Peekskill lies Yerplanck's Point. This place, called by the Indians Meahagh, was bounded on the east by the lands of Appamagpogh and the creek Meanagh, on the south by the same creek, on the west by the Hudson, and on the north by the creek Tammoesis.