Tilford, J. M., Residence of 742

Tompkins, Daniel D., Portrait of 671

Truman, Norman K., Portrait of 591

Van Cortlandt, A., Portrait of 762

Van Cortlandt Manor-House, King's Bridge 764

Van Rensselaer, W. P., Residence of 553

Van Rensselaer, W. P., Portrait of 553

Van Wyck, P. C, Portrait of 595

Varian, William A., Portrait of 584

Washington's Headquarters, White Plains 728

White Plains, 1855 730

Whittaker, Frederick, Autograph of 515

Wilkins, Isaac, Portrait of 001

Williams, Isaiah T., Portrait of 548

Wells, James L., Portrait of 843

Wood, James, .\utograph of 20, 31

Wright, Green, Portrait of 679

Yonkera, View of 518

Young, John W., Portrait of 742

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HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

GENERAL HISTOEY.

THE BOUNDARY, TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

BY J. THOMAS SCilARF, LL.D.

The American people, their lives, their institutious, and their civilization are so entirely different from what is presented elsewhere that as they make their history, so they mnst preserve its records. Never fettered by axioms, they avoid all prejudices that come from the past; not more attached to one line of operation than another, they are not prone to employ an old method rather than a new; without rooted habits, they easily shake off the influence which other nations might exercise. Their firm conviction is that their country is unlike any other, and that their situation is without a precedent in all the history of the world. Xo natural boundary restrains, in this country, the efforts of man, and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.