Where " Phil- "ipsbnrgh," [Philipsborough,'] or Yonkers, should have been designated the word "Wepperham"-- intended for "Neperhan," the nameof the stream, popularly known as the " Sawmill-river," at the mouth of which Philipsborough, or Yonkers, stood-has been erroneously inserted ; and, instead of designating Tarrytown, not "Terrytown," as situated miles adorns the Pocantico, on which the upper Manorhouse of the Manor of Philipsborough yet stands, that noted village ought to have been designated Wow that stream- indeed, the Pocantico ismade to appear as if it were the Neperhan, or Sawmill-river ; and Dobbs's-ferry and Tarrytown are consequently crowded up, into the immediate vicinity of the Crotonriver, although they are several miles below that stream ; and all the other lettering of the Map is similarly forced to the northward, unduly, in order that it may be made to correspond with the river-villages.

Probably misled by the errors referred to, in the official Map, the beautiful Map of the same Military Operations, which illustrates Stedman's History of the American War. has repeated the mistakes, in all their ugliness ; and the first edition of Lossing's Field-book of the Revolution perpetuated the unwelcome errors.

caution was necessary. 1 Besides that caution, in the Commander-in-chief, there was a great scarcity of the means for transporting the Stores and Baggage to another and distant position ; a and, with commenda-

1 Colonel KarrUon to General Heath, "Head-quarters, October 12, " 1776 ; " Colonel Grayson to the same, " Hkad-quartersi, October 13, "1776;" the same to Governor Trumbull, "Head-quarters, Harlem " Heights, October 15, 1776;" etc.