The institution is supplied with gas and with water from the Yonkers works, and is under the protection of the New York Qity police. The picturesque stone castle of Edwin Forrest still stands between the convent and the railroad station, and a part is made the dwelling of the chaplain of the institution. The larger rooms on the first floor are occupied by the museum of natural history, the collection of minerals being unusually large and good,* and there is also a fine cabinet of coins and medals.^

3 Authoress of nn interesting history of the institution.

* Presented by Dr. E. S. F. Arnold, of New York.

' Forrest purchased this estate in 1847, and called it " Font Hill."

KING'S BllIDGE.

On their own ground, on a side-street near Riverdale Avenue, the Sisters, in 1875, built, at a cost of over twenty thousand dollars, " St Vincent's Free School," a brick building sixty by ninety feet, where they continue to teach, at their own cost, a free primary school now numbering about one hundred and fifty boys and girls of the vicinity.

The residences of Edmund D. Randolph and Mr. B. Cuthbert adjoin this property on the south.

MosHOLu' is an old hamlet and post-office skirting the Albany post road, known early in the century as " Warner's," where many years ago there were a church (Methodist), school-house, store, blacksmith and wagon-shop and a cluster of dwellings.

WooDLAWX Heights. -- A village (and until recently a post-office) on the Harlem Railroad, laid out in 1873 by George Opdyke and others on a part of the old Gilbert Valentine farm, in the Yonkers. E. K. Wilhird extended the village northward the same year to the Mile Square road on land formerly part of Phillipse ^lanor. A church and a number of small dwelling-houses have been erected on these plots.