About two miles above Sing Sing is the source of theCroton River, which furnishes the water supply for New York City. It is conveyed by an aiiueduct forty miles long, with sixteen tunnels and forty-four bridges. Croton Point, four miles above Sing Sing, is a tongue of land projecting into the river and covered with vineyards and orchards- It separates Tappan Zee from Haverstraw Bay. At its extremity a noble view of the river is obtained. Some distance below is Point-no-Point and in the opposite direction the Highlands loom into view. The upper end ol Haverstraw Bay is nuirked by Stony Point on the west and Verjilanck's Point on the east. Verplanck's Point was also the site of a fort in the Revolutionary period. The view from this spot is exceedingly beautiful, commanding the passage through the Highlands at West Point. Nearly opposite is Gibraltar or Caldwell's Landing, which marks the commencement of the Highlands.

'* lly \voo*lo(i bluft" we stfal, by U'aiiin^ lawn ; By palace, village, cot, a sweet siir|>ri3e .\t every tm ii tlie vision breaks upon ; Till to our woniiering and iiiiliTted eyes The liiglilanil roi ks and hills in solemn gramleiir rise. '

It was here that the search was made many years ago forsunken Ireasuresupposed to have been deposited by the noted buccaneer and freebooter. Captain Kidd.

Beyond Verplanck's Point, on the east bank, is Peckskill, forty-three miles from New York. It .stands upon a broad bay, at the mouth of a creek, and looks out upon the Dunderberg or Thunder Mountain. It is historically noted a.s the pbice where Edward Palmer, a British s|)y, was executed by order of General Putnam. He was hanged from a tree on the village green. The beautiful Highlands rise in their lovely majesty to the northward and westward of the town, and the river, pent up into a narrow channel between their flinty jaws, rusiies onward in impetuous course only to spread out again in the beautiful, jjlacid bay ot JIaverstraw.