When the retreat was originally determined on, the necessity for a prompt and immediate occupation of the new-selected |>osition was too evident to admit of any such halts, for any such purposes ; and, in the great scarcity of Teams for the removal of the Stores and Baggage and Artillery, which required the men to take the places of beasts of burden, in dragging and carrying what needed to be transportcil, the main bofly of the .\miy needed no additional labor, nor is it in the slightest degree probable that any such additional labor was really imposed on it.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

position which had been appointed for it, on the extreme left of the proposed line of the Army, its left resting on a "deep hollow, through which ran a small " brook,^ which came from a mill-pond,^ a little above."' On the eastern, or opposite side, of that "deep hol- " low," " there was a very commanding ground," from which the Division could have been enfiladed;* and the ground occupied by the Division, descended, gradually, from the extreme left to the right of the line.*

On the high ground, on the opposite side of the "deep hollow," General Heath posted the Regiment of New York troops commauded by Colonel William Malcolm, and Lieutenant Fenno of the Artillery, the latter with a field -piece, with instructions to occupy a position in the skirt of the wood which covered the upper portion of the high ground, " at the South brow " of the hill and there, that covering party remained, until the American Army retreated into the high grounds of Northcastle.^