cast the eye ranges over an extensive country of hills, woods and vales, slretdiing towards Long Island Sound; the distant horizon skirted by light blue hills. To the north lie the Tuckahoe hills, while v/estward the view is bounded by the Yonkers ridge, surmounted with lofty woods, ■with here and there a glimpse to be obtamed of the dark palisades peeping through some opening in the trees ; below lies a beautiful vale, through which meanders Tippet's Brook. At the base of the hill ^\•inds the Croton Acqueduct.

Valentine's hill and the adjoining property has been occupied by the ancient and numerous family of the Valentines, for nearly one hundred and twenty years. In this immediate neighborhood is situated the old burying-ground. Here are interred the remains of Frederick Devoe, the grand-father of Col. Thomas Farringdon of New York city, and several members of the Valentine and Brown families. It is now included in Woodlawn cemetery. The ancestor of the family, Matthias Valentine, having been one of the first tenants under the Philipses ; on his settlement here, the whole surrounding country was one vast forest, the lonely domain of the deer. The verges of these forests also abounded with another noble species of game long since extinct, and that was the wild turkey. It is said that flocks of them used to fly from the Yonkers ridge on the west side of Tippet's brook to this hill, at certain seasons of the year, for the purpose of feeding on the acorn and beech nut. The flight was always commenced by a large black cock of the woods, sunset being the signal for departure; the leader gave the well known note, and they were instantly on the wing for the opposite hills. There yet remains a fine specimen of the ancient denizens of the forests on the western edge of this hill, by the roadside leading to the village.