With the story of the bridge, other similarly groundless stories for which that phantom bridge had afforded foundations, notwithstanding the effect with which they have been related by their inventor, also vanish as the reader will shortly see.

* Mr. Irving, subsequently, explained to us, personally, how he had fallen into the error ; and requested us to pay no respect to the erroneous statements, contained in his work, concerning them.

tered, with the main body of the Army, within the lines, on the other side of the river. l

The Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fifth Regiments were the first portion of the supporting party who succeeded in crossing the river ; 2 and they moved from the ford, along the road which has more recently been known as " The Mill-lane," extending between the base of Chatterton's-hill and the bank of the Bronx, until they had reached a point which was opposite to the right of the American line, on the top of the hill, ' when they faced to the left and, with the shivering Hessians on their front, they climbed up the steep and rugged hill-side, in good order and with the greatest steadiness, 4 the fire of the Hessian Artillerists, on the opposite side of the river, at least that portion of it which was directed against the American right, having been suspended, in order that they might not be exposed to unnecessary danger. 5

On that portion of the American line which was exposed to that assault, on its front, as well as to the movement of the Hessian Brigade commanded by Colonel Rail, who had been ordered to charge on its right flank, simultaneously with the movement on its front,