7 There is, evidently, considerable exaggeration in what was written of that cannonade, by " a Gentleman in the Army," in his letter, already resorted to, dated " Camp near the Mills, about three miles North " of the White Plains, November 1, 1776 ; " but we make room for it. " The scene was grand and solemn ; all the adjacent hills smoked, as " though on fire, and bellowed and trembled with a perpetual cannonade " and fire of field-pieces, howitz, and mortars. The air groaned " with streams of cannon and musket-shot ; the air and hills smoked and " echoed, terribly, with the bursting of shells ; the fences and walls were " knocked down, and torn to pieces ; and men's legs, arms, and bodies " mingled with cannon and grape-shot, all round us. I was in the ac- " tion, and under as good advantages aB any one man, to obBerve all that " passed, and write these particulars of the action from my own observa- "tion."

A very near connection, by marriage, of our own family, then living where what was, lately, Hall's Tavern, at Hall's-corners, now known as Elmsford, on the road leading from the White Plains to Tarrytown, told ub, many years ago, that he heard that severe cannonade, and saw the smoke occasioned by it, and very clearly remembered it ; and, as may be reasonably supposed, under such circumstances, he regarded it as something more than ordinarily terrible. ■