We looked around with t-.-'crnuss at each portion of the room on which his e3-e must have rested, we frx'vd tlirough the small window panes, through which he mu?t have so often and .sj anxiously looked towards the enemy, and at the old-fashioned bullets, where lii.^ table service was deposited for his acommodation. But little change has uken place in the building ; and its amiable and patriotic inmates have shown thi'ir respect for the hero, by placing on tlie walls, his portrait and several repre- .•^.ntations of his last moments at Mount Vernon." ■''

In the north-east angle of the town, hes St. Marj-'s Lake -- a large and beautiful sheet of water, whicli falls into the Maraaroneck river, its banks on the north-west side are very steep, and the views from the summits of the surrounding hills are extremely fine.

The general surface of White Plains, " is somewhat hilly, but mostly arable ; soil, principally loam, well adapted to grass, and much of it li;ghly cultivated."'' The higher lands abound wit'n good timber, which consists chiefly of oak, chestnut and hickory. There is perhaps no town in the county better watered by rivers, brooks, and springs.

a Journal of N'. Y. Prov. Congress, vol. ii, 317.

6 Mr. Elijah >!Ulcr (who is since deceased) was a soldier of the Kcvolutlon.

e DLstaruell's Gazetteer, N. Y.

THE TOWN

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Yonkers is situated on the east bank of the Hudson, immediately above New York Island, seventeen miles north of New York, one hundred and thirty south of Albany, and ten south-west of W/iiie Plains; bounded north by Greenburgh, east by Eastchester and a small angle of Westchester, or by Bronx's River, south by West Farms and New York county, and west by the Hudson River.