Livingston that he had sent for him to give him very special orders, to impress upon him the danger of his post and the necessity of vigilance, and to communicate other particulars, which could only be done in a personal interview. In conclusion he said it was a source of gratification to him, that the post was in the hands of an officer, whose courage and devotedness to the cause of his country afforded a pledge of a faithful and honorable discharge of duty. Let the reader imagine the grateful emotions of Col. Livingston, his increased esteem for his commander, and the alacrity with which, under such an impulse, he went back to his station of high trust and danger.''^

One of the most interesting associations connected with this spot, is the recollection, that here were located the head-quarters of General Washington.

" On my return from the southward in 1782," says the translator of Chastellux, (who has thought proper to withhold his name,) " T spent a day or two at the American camp at Verplanck's Point, where I had the honor of dining with General Washington. I had suffered severely from an ague which I could not get quit of, though I had taken the exercise of a hard trotting horse, and got thus far to the northward in the month of October. The General observing it, told me he was sure 1 had not met with a good glass of wine for some time-- an article then very rare -- but that my disa Sparks' Life of Arnold, p. 249. b Sparks' Life of Arnold, p. 253.