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. There is no grander river scenery in the world than at this portiou of the Hudson. Writing of the Highlands, Dr. Mitciiell says,--" This solid barrier of ro(;k, which is sixteen miles wide and extends along both sides of the Hudson to the distance of twenty miles, in ancient days seems to have impeded the course of the water and to have raised a lake high enough to cover all the country to Quaker Hill and the Taghkanic

Mountains on the east, and to Shawanguiik and the C'atskillson the west, exteiuling to the Little Falls of the Mohawk, and to the lladley Falls of the Hudson, but by some convulsion of nature the mountain chain had been broken, and thus the rushing waters found their way to the now New York Bay."

Near Peekskiil the territory of Westchester terminates at the boundary Hue which sei)arates it from Putnam County. It would be impossible to depict in language the manifold beauties and advantages of its Hudson Riverfront, already lined with beautiful homes and destiued to become, no doubt, in coui-se of time, one of the most densely populated localities in all the world. For nearly fifty miles it presents an unbroken succession of pictures<iue building sites with charming prospects of hill and river scenery, thought by many to be unrivaled in any quarter of the globe.