The northernmost branches of that River rising in Putnam County and the easternmost, in Connecticut, each receiving in its course many small affluents, meet near its centre, and form the main stream of the Croton, which falls into the Hudson on the south side of the striking peninsula of Teller's, or Croton, Point. Five or six small streams, the largest of which, is " John Peaks Creek," now Peekskill (kill being the Dutch word for creek) also fall into the Hudson. These streams form deep sinuous valleys between the high, rocky hills through which they force their way to " The Great River of the Mountains. They take their rise in the range of hills dividing the valley of the Croton from that of the Hudson, which run nearly parallel to the latter at a distance to the ea.st of it about thi-ee or four miles. From the eastern slopes of these hills to the Connecticut line extends the valley of the Croton proper, broken by lesser ranges of wooded hills, and high fertile ridges, into numerous smaller valleys, through which run perpetually, clear and winding streams. Notwithstanding this fiiir region has been the abode of a numerous and thriving population for more than a century and a half, it still possesses extensive forests, and rocky, wooded hills, amid which glisten, like diamonds, numbers of small transparent lakes. So many are they that only a few of the larger are to be found upon the Maps. This region so remarkably wooded and watered, formerly abounded in beaver, all kinds of deer, and the ever present foes of the latter, wolves. Many are the provincial statutes offering bounties for the destruction of the latter. The beaver lived on the streams and in the forests of Corelandt till early in this century, the last having been killed near Lake Waccabuc in 1837.