The elevation of Fort W'ashington, the greatest on Manhattan Island, is two hundred and sixty-four feet.

3 So called after Jonas Bronck, the earliest white settler and proprietor of "Bronck's Land," now Morriaania, Twenty-third Ward, New York.

'.\n arliticial pond, formed by Jacobus Van Cortlandt, circum 1700, by damming Tippett's Brook.

5.\ffording building-stone of fine quality. Before 1750 quarries of "broken stone " were worked on Spuyten Duyvil Ridge, the whole extent of which is scarred by them. The large quarries at Spuyten Duyvil Point were worked until about IS.'iO.

' Known as Kiiufs Bridge Mitrble. It was extensively quarried early in the century on the northerly end of Manhattan Island. Perkins NichoUs had a marble-sawing mill at " Dyckman's Cut " (which wa« excavated to supply power to this mill by the ebb and How of the tide), and another at the King's Bridge. On the banks of the Hudson, along ths base of Spuyten Duyvil Ridge, were several kilns for making lime from this stone, all of which have been disused for many years.

tober 2d, from Shomck-Kappock, the Indian name of Spuyten Duyvil Point,' and the kill or creek at its base.

Indians. -- The Indian name of this section was Weckqwieskeek, -- " the birch-bark country," -- and its residents were known to the first settlers as Wickerscreek Indians. In person they were tolerably stout. Their hair was worn shorn to a coxcomb on top, with a long lock depending on one side. They wore beaver and other skins, with the fur inside in winter and outside in summer, and also coats of turkey feathers. They were valiant warriors. " Yea," says De Vries, " they say they are Manetto -- the devil himself! '' Their leading sachems, at the advent of white settlers, were Tequeiaet, Eechgairac and Packamiens, from whom the Dutch director, Kieft, purchased, in August, 16-19, the tract Keskeskick.