Spicer's neck, on the margin of the Westchester creek, shrouded by a group of venerable locusts. The nurseries of Mr. William Ferris, situated a litile north of the house, are very extensive and contain eveiy variety of fruit and ornamental trees. We believe this is the largest establishment of the kind in Westchester county. There was formerly a ferry between Ferry 'point, the termination of Brockeit's neck, now called Laing's Island, and the opposite shore of Powell's point, L. I. The passage was performed in a peri-auger.

The Westchester creek which is here nearly three quarters of a mile across, abounds with every description of shell and salt water fish. Among the latter, may be enumerated, bass, week fish, black fish, drum, eels, flounders, spice, tomicods, perch, porgies, horse mackerel, herrings, bequeals, garnet, &-c.

On the eastern side of the creek, lies Castle-hill neck^^ the property of Governeur M. Wilkins, Esq. This estate was formerly held by the Cromwell fiimily.b lu 1685, John Cromwell and Elizabeth Cromwell his wife, exchanged six acres of meadow with Thomas Hunt, for eight acres of upland, situated upon Castle neck.'^ From the Crom well's, f' it went to a younger branch of the Underhill's,c who conveyed it to the Rev. Isaac Wilkins. After being sold by Mr. Wilkins, in 1784, it was successively the property of the families of Pell, Russell, Gilchrist, Taylor and Aspen, from whom it passed to Martin Wilkins, Esq., by whose son it is now enjoyed. The family of Wilkins, was originally seated in the county of Glamorgan, South Wales, and derives from " Robert de Wintona, or Wincestria, who came into that county with Robert Fitzhamon, who was lord of the manor of lianguian, near Coubridge and built a castle there, the ruins of which are still extant. The