The lower grounds are covered generally with maple, birch and elm, &c.

The principal minerals of the town, are quartz, drusy, calcedony, agate and jasper. Serpentine of almost every variety, and cromate of iron ; veins of the dolomitic marble also occur in various localities. -- -

a This family is a branch of the INIunros of Foulis, Scotland, b The first Walter of this family was the famous " Auld Wat," the renowned freebooter of the Scottish border.

' Near the Palmer bnrvinsf ffronnd stood the old Friends meeting house.

316 HISTORY OF THE

jM O U IS T P L E A S A xN T .

TiJE naiiie of this town justly denotes its pleasant location upon high hills. Mount Pleasant lias been recently separated from the old town of the same name, and erected into a distinct township ;a both having been formerly included in the Manor of Philipsburgh. It is situated six miles north-west of the village of "W'liite Plains, distant thirty three miles from New York and one hundred and nineteen from Albany ; bounded north by Ossining and Newcastlcj east by Northcastle, south by Greenburgh, and west by Ossin-ing and the Hudson river.

This tract of land must originally have formed a portion of the ancient domains of VVeckquaskeck, as we find Weskora, sachem of tliat place, and Ghoharius, his brother, (a chief residing here,) conjointly selling lands, bordering the Pocanteco, to Frederick Philipse in the year 1680.

Upon the district situated near the mouth of the Pocanteco river, (called by the English Mill river,) the Indians conferred the name of Pockerhoe. Pocanteco, the Indian name for the beautiful Mill river, is clearly a derivative from the Algonquin, Pockohantes,^ a term expressive of a '' run between two hills." The local term Pockerhoe also points to the saniie root for its origin.