There are here, likewise, several choice pieces of French furniture, some gobelin tapestn,', and a good portrait of the late Hon. Gouverneur Morris, also a fine marble bust of Mrs. Morris.
The grounds are enriched \vith many rare ornamental trees and shnibs; among the former deserve to be mentioned, two or three specimens of the deciduous American cypress, {cupressiis disilcha), said by Gordon to be the finest of the kind in the United States. Of the latter, there are hedges of the gliditsia frieani/ms, and the gliditsia horrida.
The Mill Brook" valley passes near the house, and joins the Harlem kills. It was through this historic valley that Harvey Birch, of Cowpens,
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