About three quarters of a mile westward from the principal roadway of the unpretentious little Village, flowed the small stream which was, then, as it is, now, called " The Bronx-river," forming the western boundary of the plain referred to, and separating it from "The " Manor of Philipseborough ; " to the Northwest and Northeast of the Village, respectively, were bold and sometimes abrupt elevations, united by less elevated ground with a gradual descent toward the Village, the whole forming the northern boundary of "the " White Plains," below; and beyond those flanking elevations and that intervening high ground, to the northward of the Village, and not more than a mile distant from the northern extremity of it, in the Town of Northcastle, was the high and rocky ground which is, now, so well known, in history, as that to which the American Army swung back, after the action on Chatterton's-hill.^

1 " You are misinformed as to the quantity of Provisions we have lost. " When General Lee removed, he was obliged to leave eighty or ninety " barrels of Provisions, of all kinds, for want of Wagons." -- (Lieuteuanlcolonel Tench Tilghman to Witluim Duer^ "Head-quarters, White- " Plains, October27, 1776.")

Bancroft, in his History of the United States, (original edition, ix., 179 ; the same, centenary edition, v., 443,) said "sixty or seventy barrels of " Provisions" weie lost. We have heard of no other loss, except that of General Lee's Baggage and Wine.

2 Colonel 11. H. HarrUon to the Continental Congress, " Head-quar- " TERS, White-Plains, 25 October, 1776."