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. To this day one beautiful branch of the Croton bears the name of

" The Beaver Dam," and a high wooded ridge, not far from it is still called, "The Deer's Delight." There are two points, from which the greater part of this splendid region can be looked down upon almost as a whole. The first is " Knapp's Hill," or " Lounsberry Hill," just over the Manor line in Bedford, which was used as a military station of observation during the Revolution. The second, and the finer, is Prospect Mount in the eastern part of North Salem. It is just within the " Oblong," and though a part of North Salem since 1731, was not originally within the Manor. From its summit looking west the eye ranges over the whole twenty miles in length of the Manor of Cortlandt, the view being only terminated by the Rockland Mountains across the Hudson. The depression in which the latter lies is distinctly seen. Immediately in front of the spectator spreads the rich and affluent valley of the Titicus, the "Mughtiticoos" of the Indians, the eastern branch of the Croton, bounded on each side by high, irregular forest clad hills, the silver stream winding and gleaming through green smiling meadows till it falls into the Croton itself five miles away.