" When General Lee removed, he was obliged to leave eighty or ninety " barrels of Provisions, of all kinds, for want of Wagons." -- (Lieutenantcolonel Tench Tilghman to William Duer, "Head-quarters, White- " Plains, October27, 177C")

Bancroft, in his History of the United Suites, (original edition, ix., 179 ; the same, centenary edition, v., 443,) said " sixty or seventy barrelB of "Provisions" were lost. We have heard of no other loss, except that of General Lee's Baggage and Wine.

2 Colonel B. H. Harrison to the Continental CongresB, " Head-quar- " ters, White-Plains, 25 October, 1776."

8 Our own knowledge of the ground, as it was, more than thirty years ago. forms the groundwork of this description ; and we have been favored, further, in our work of describing the topography of that vicinity, with the assistance of our valued friend of many years, Hon. Lewis C. Piatt, formerly Surrogate of the County, and with that of our not less esteemed friend, Hon. J. 0. Dykuian, Justice of the Supreme Court, both

The site of the encampment which the American Army occupied was on the high grounds, northwestward and northeastward from the Village, and the lower grounds between them ; with covering positions, on either flank. A temporary line of works had been previously constructed along the northerly line of the road which extended from the Meeting-house of the Presbyterian -church, past the house of Jacob Purdy, to the Bronx-river 4 -- that road which connected the White Plains with Dobbs's-ferry ; but the entrenchments which were thrown up for the defence of the Army, occupied a line from the Bronx-river, at a point which was nearly opposite to the residence of the late William Roberts, on the right ; over the summit of the hill which is to the northward of the Harlem Railroad Station, then owned by 'Squire Jacob Purdy, more recently by his son, Jacob, and now by numerous owners, eastward, over properties more recently owned by the younger Jacob Purdy, Daniel Dusenberry, and Alexander C.