Itoltou from " Wilson's American Ornithology," and well worthy of being preserved for its originality and beauty : " Fisuerjian's IIvmn. " The osprey sails above the Sound ;

The geese are gone, the gulls are Hying ; The herring shoals swarm thick around ;

The nets are launched, the boats arc plying. Vo ho, my hearts ! let's seek the deep,

Rjiise high the song, and cheerly wish her. Still as the bending net we sweep,

(Jod bless the tish hawk and the fisluu-.

" She brings us fish, she brings us Spring,

(iooil times, fair weather, warmth and plenty ; Fine .store of shad, trout, herrings, ling, Shcepshead and drum, and old wives dainty

PELIIAM.

Tlie wooden structure wliich oiiee connected the Neck with the Westchester shore, iuid whieli was a toU-hridge, has heen rephiced by one of iron, which is free. It is said to have cost sixty thousand dollai-s. The ancient oak-tree under which the Indian sachems made the transfer of the Pelham Manor ])roperty to Thomas Pell, and a piece of which is in the writer's possession, stood until within twenty or thirty years past on the Bartow estate. The Indians received, it is said, as an equivalent for their deed of the land, sundry hogsheads of Jamaica rum. There is not far from this spot a singular I'reak of nature -- a split rock, with a tree growing out of the crevice. This was a sur])rise to the writer, when, for the first time, he visited this region, nearly forty years ago. It stands on the cross-road between the Pelham and New York roads, and the oldest inhabitant has never seen it otherwise than it looks to-day. In the year 1790 the population of Pelham was as follows :