It commands extensive views of the surrounding country and the adjacent waters. " Here he passed the latter years of his life exercising an elegant and munificent hospitality, reviewing the studies of liis early days, and carrying on a very interesting correspondence with statesmen and literati in Europe and America.''^ Among his principal guests were Louis Philipe Le Due d'Orleans, (the present king of the French) aud John Victor Moreau, one of the most celebrated of modern French generals. Of the old mansion, which was constructed in the French chateau style, nothing remains but the central portion, and this has been greatly modernized by the prea Harlem conveyances

I Harlem conveyances, p. 7.

= Barber's Hibt. Coll. of N. Y.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

sent proprietor. The interior, however, retains much of its former consistence. The hbrary possesses a very choice collection of books. It is chiefly remarkable for the valuable manuscripts belonging to it, which are so extensively connected with the history of its former owner. There are here, likewise, several choice pieces of French furniture, some gobelin tapestry, and a good portrait of the late Hon. Governeur Morris, also a fine marble bust of Mrs. Morris.

The grounds are enriched with many rare ornamental trees and shrubs, among the former deserve to be mentioned, two or three specimens of the deciduous American cypress, (cupressus disticha) said by Gordon to be the finest of the kind in the United States. Of the latter, there are hedges of the gliditsia tricanthus, and the gliditsia horrida. The orchards consist principally of the bell flower, styre and pearmain apple trees.