The whole twenty miles of the Manor, hill, valley, river, and forest, glowing in the most brilliant radiance beneath the deep red tints of a gorgeous sky, and then as the great luminary, tinting their peaks with gold, sinks behind the blue Rockland Mountains, the whole suddenly blotted out in a deep purplish sombre gloom.

Upon the lower slopes of the height stands the old home of the Keelers, now the residence of Hobart Keeler, the fourth or fifth in a direct line who for a century and a half have always dwelt there. And yet it is so high, that from his dining room windows on a clear day. High Tor and the other Rockland mountains are plainly visible.

In the southeastern part of the Manor is a range of heights trending from northwest to southeast dividing the valley of the Croton from that of Long Island Sound, in which rise st reams running southerly to the Sound the chief of which are the Myanos, now known as the Mianus, and the Armonck, or Byram River. Thus within the Manor are three distinct water-sheds, two carrying their waters into the Hudson, and one into the sound.

The origin of the name of the river, the great natural feature of the Manor, the waters of which supply the great city of New York by means of a magnificent aqueduct without a rival in Ancient or Modern times, is not certainly known. Different theories have been and are held upon this subject. What is