The following appropriate lines were written by a gentlemen, after a visit paid to this beautiful spot, the former residence of the de Lancey family : --

DE LANCET'S ANCIENT PINE.

Where gentle Bronx clear winding flows, The shadowy banks betsveen, Where blossomed bell or wilding rose Adorns the briglitest green ; Memorial of the fallen great, The rich and honoured line, Stands high in solitary state, De Lancey's ancient pine.

There once at early dawn arrayed

The rural sport to lead,

The gallant master of the glade,

Bedecked his eager steed.

And once the llghtfoot maiden came

In loveliness divine.

To sculpture with the dearest name,

De Lancey's ancient pine.

But now the stranger's foot explore

De Lancey's wide domain.

And scarce one kindred heart restores.

His memory to the plain ;

And just like cue in age alone,

The last of all his line,

Bends sadly where the waters moan,

De Lancey's ancient pine.

Oh, victim of misguided zeal

To tell thy former fame !

Who bids the fretted stone reveal

The numbers of thy name ?

Ere brightening up the eastern sky,

Another morn shall shine.

In equalizing dust may lie

De Lancey's ancient pine.

Wo ho ! the satiate traveler stays Where eve's cahu glories shine. To weep as tells of other days, De Lancy's ancient pine.

THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 43 1

Al a short distance from Lydig's mills, on the property of Mr. Leonard .\I.\; •'••<, may be s<;en the ruins of an old chateau, since the residence of Lewis If. Guerlain. The following inscription upon a marble monument hard by, so touchingly records the history of its former inmates, that any further account would be needless.