The vvaterj as it rises from the rocks, is transparent, but in its course deposites a reddish yellow powder. The salts held in solution are said to be sulphate of lime, chloride of calcium, and the muriate of iron, and manganese. The water is supposed to possess medicinal properties similar to those usually ascribed to sulphur springs.''^-

It is a singular fact, that sulphuretted springs are to be found at short distances from this spot to Fort Miller, in Washington county, a distance of a hundred and fifiy miles.

In the northeast corner of the town lies the romantic valley of the Pepemighting,b through which the river of that name meanders in its passage to the Croton. This part of New Castle has been recently taken from the adjoining township of Somers.^

» Nat. Hist, of N. Y. Part iii. 141. Sulphuretted hydrogen is the gas evolved. b Misnamed the Kisco.

c Laws of N. Y. May 12, 1846. 69th Session, chap. 249. The Sutton family settled in this part of the town 104 years ago.

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NEW ROCHELLE.

The town of New Rochelle, (which formerly constituted a portion of the manor of p Pelham,) is situated on g the south-east side of i the county, distant eight miles south of the village of White Plains, and one hundred and Indian imagp stone a

forty miles from Albany ; bounded by Scarsdale on the north, by Mamaroneck and Scarsdale on the east, by Hutchinson's river and Pelham on the west, and on the south by the Sound.