Dormer's Island, mentioned above, is the present hummock or high land since known as Taylor's Island, and now occupied by General Ellis and others.

Characterisths and Pretext Occupant.*. -- The township is a well-wooded, park-like country, interspersed with thriving settlements, and at ihe extreme eastern limit the Eitst River expands into the broad Long Island Sound, indented on the Westchester shore with numerous bays and inlets washing the feet of commanding eminences, from which combined views of inland and marine scenery are to be obtained unsurpassed in any other part of this

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beautiful State. It seems to have been designed by nature to form a fitting suburb to the great city which ' adjoins it. ;

On its extreme eastern limit on Throgg's Point, at the commencement of Long Island Sound, is Fort ; Schuyler and the United States government lighthouse. The fort was erected about the middle of this century, and, in connection with the batteries on the Long Island shore, protects the entrance into New York Harbor by the East River. Hammond's Point, near by, now owned by the estate of the late F. C. Havemeyer, a well-known merchant, and at one time supervisor, commands one of the finest views on Long Island Sound. Near by the bay is Pennyfield, the residence of the widow of the late George T. Adee, a respected citizen, and oue of the members of the old ' family of Adee, long settled in the township. Mr. ^ Adee was lor many years identified with some of the ! largest financial institutions in New Y'ork. He was a director of the Equitable Life In>.urance Company, and for a long time vice-president of the Bank of ! Commerce. Near by are the Dominick Lynch, Francis Morris and Van Schaick places, all now the prop- ' erty of the Havemeyer family and Mr.