Where " Pliil- "Ipsburgh," [I'liilqisboroiigh,] or Yonkers, should have been designated the word " Wepperham " -- intended for '"Neperhan," the name of the atream, popularly known as the " Sawmill-river," at the mouth of which Philipshorougb, oi Yonkere, stood -- has been erroneously inserte<i ; and, instead of designating Tari-j-town, not " Terrytow 11," as situated miles ufcurctbe I'ocaiitico, on whiuli the upper Maiiorliouse of the Manor of PhilifMborough yet stjimU, that noted village ought to have been desig- DKteJ ((W.iii tliat stream-- indeed, the Pocantico ismade to appear as if it were the NuiKirhan, or Sawmill-river ; and Dobbs's-ferry and Tarrytown are const(iiiently crowded up, into the immediate vicinity of the Crotonriver, although they are several miles below tliat stream ; and all the other lettering of the Map is similarly forced to the northward, unduly, in order that it may be nia<le to correspond with the river-villages.

Probably misled by the errors referred to, in the official Map, theheftiitiful Map of the same Military Operations, which illustrates Stedinan's Uittorij of the American H iir. luvs repeated the mistakes, in all their ug linesB ; and the first edition of Lossiiig's Field-book of the Heioluti»n perpetuated the unwelcome errors.

caution was necessary.^ Besides that caution, in the Commander-in-chief, there was a great scarcity of the moans for transporting the Stores and Baggage to another and distant position ; and, with commenda-

■ Colonel Harriton to General Heath, " Head-quaiiteus, October 12, "177(i ; " Colonel Grayson to the same, " IlEAn-QiiAUTEU.s, October 13, "177G;" the same to Governor Tnimbiill, " Heah-quakteus, IIaulem " Heiohts, October 15, 177G;" etc.