We looked around with eagerness at each portion of the room on which his eye must have rested, we gazed through the small window panes through which he must have so often and so anxiously looked towards the enemy, and at the oldfashioned buffets where his table service was deposited for his accommodation. But little change has taken place in the building, and its amiable and patriotic inmates have shown their respect for the hero by placing on the walls his portrait and several representations of his last moments at Mount V^ernon."

In the north-east angle of this town lies "Willett's pond, a large and beautiful sheet of water, which falls into the Mamaroneck river. Its banks on the north-west side are very steep and the views from the summits of the surrounding hills are extremely fine. At the outlet of the pond is situated the grist mill and clothier works of Mr. Henry Willett.

The general surface of White Plains, "is somewhat hilly, but mostly arable ; soil, principally loam, well adapted to grass, and much of it highly cultivated."'^ The higher lands abound with good timber, which consists chiefly of oak, chestnut and hickory. There is perhaps no town in the county belter watered by rivers, brooks, and spring?.

* Mr. Elijiih Miller (who is since deceased,, was a soldier of the Revolution. b DistunieU'p Gazetteer, N. Y.

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YORKTOWN.

Wiiite Plains, distant forty-two miles from New York, and one hundred and seventeen from Albany, ''bounded north by Putnam county, east by Somers and New Castle, south by New Castle, and west by Cortlandt. Its length, north and south, ten miles, and it is nearly four miles wide.