A fine view of City Island and the Sound and Pelham Bay is to be obtained from this locality. City Island is .so named from the hopes of the early settlers, inspired by its great advantages of location, that it would one day become the site of a great commercial city. It is a beautiful spot, but its only important industry is a large dock-yard, at which a number of noted yachts have been built. To the eastward lies Hart Island, the site of a city hospital and work-house. Hunter's Island is connected with the main land by a stone causeway ami bridge. From the mansion, about the middle of the island, a noble view is afibrded.

New Rochelle, the next township, possesses a double interest on account of its natural beauties and interesting liistorical associations as the site of the ancient Huguenot settlement. In its immediate vicinity the waters of the Sound are dotted with numerous islands, and in the distance the shores of Long Island present a smiling landscape, varied by cosy villages and jjrosperous looking farm-houses. Nearly opposite the town of New Rochelle is a promontory extending into the entrance to Hempstead Bay, which is known as Kidd's Point, from tlie i)opular supposition that Captain Kidd, the ])irale, buried some of his ill-gotten treasure there. The lands of this portion of the county, as a rule, are level and stony, but the soil is productive and there are handsome growths of timber on the unimproved tracts.

Mamaroneck, adjoining New Rochelle on the east, was a favorite resort of the Indians, who are supposed to have been attracted bj' the renuirkable beauty of the scenery. The Mamaroneck River, which forms the eastern boundary of the town, is a romantic stream, winding through a picturesque and fertile country and forming some charming valleys.