Here a pipe of nine hundred feet in length conveys the water lo the neighboring mill, affording a fall of thirty feet to an overshot wheel.

In the vicinity of the upper dock, the ravine opens and displays a splendid view of the Hudson River. The road, passing through the gap of the Greenburgh hills west of the Saw Mill Valley, follows the course of the ancient Indian path, which formerly led to the village of the ^^ Bark Kettle,^^ at the mouth of the Weghqueghe, or Wysquaqua Creek.

The lower landing and ferry are situated some distance south of the creek at the foot of a steep bank. Here is a neat hotel, kept by Mr. Shadrach Taylor, for the convenience of passengers by the ferry, and the daily steamboats that touch at this dock.

Dobb's Ferry was distinguished, during the Revolution, as the scene of active military operations. To this fort, October 9, 1776, General Hentli ordered Colonel Sargent, with 500 infantry, 40 light horsp, Capt. Horton, of the artillery, with two 12 pounders,

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and Captain Crafts, with a howitzer, to watch the movements of the enemy up the river.^

To this place the British army retreated after tlie battle of White Plains, closely followed by reconnoitering parties of the Americans. On the 7th of November, 1776, the enemy commenced foraging for grain and hay, and driving in cattle.^

On the 29th of January, 1777, General Lincoln's division of the Continental army was ordered to Dobb's Ferry. <5