Here an old Dutch burgher, famed for his veracity, and who had been a witness of the fact, related to them the melancholy affair, with the fearful addition, (to which I am slow of giving belief,) that he saw the duyvel, in the shape of a huge moss-bonker, seize the sturdy Anthony by the leg, and drag him beneaih the waves. Certain it is, the place with the adjoining promontory which projects into the Hudson, has been called spyt den duyvel, or spiking duyvel. ever since. The restless ghost ot the unfortunate Anthony still haunts the surrounding solitudes, and his trumpet has often been heard by the neighbors, of a stormy night, mingling with the howling of the blast. Nobody ever attempts to swim over the creek after dark ; on the contrary, a bridge has been built to guard against such melancholy accidents in future."*

Tliis creek and neighbouring waters are also celebrated for their shad fishery. The season for fishing commences in March and continues throughout April and May. It is entirely governed by the influx and reflux of the tide, or the lust of the flood and ebb. The fishermen make four lifts every twenty-four hours. The aggiegate value of this fish, (the Aiosa Sapidissima, Rap.,) taken in tfie Hudson river and neighbouring waters south of the Highlands, amounts to $^100,000 annually.

Tlie small settle.jnent of Kingsbridge bordering on the Haarlem river, took its name from a ferry and bridge established here at a very early period of the Colonial administration. The Westchester side of the bridge (where stands the Macomb's mansion,) was formerly an island called by the Indians Paperinemen, as