An analysis of its waters gives the two following ingredients as held in solution -- \iz : Sixty per cent, of hme, and thirty per cent, of magnesia. Many fine bass and pickerel are taken here, (some of the former weighing five lbs) as well as white and yellow perch. Five years ago an attempt was made to stock the lake ■intli 10,000 salmon trout; but since then the black bass have been introduced with better success. At the head of the lake stands the residence of Charles D' Urban Morris, A. M., who for a number of years past has so successfully conducted the "Lake School." This braiicli of the Morris family is not only descended directly from the Philipses, (^Lauorial lords of riiilipsburgh) but

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is also connected mth the Van Cortlandts, the lords of Cortlandt Manor. Roger Morris (eleventh in descent from Cadugan of Philip IXirddu, a powerful Welsh chieftain) who stood high in favor, and on terms of great friendship, u-ith the Duke of .-^gyle and the Earl of Pembroke in 1734, married Man,-, daughter of Sir Peter Jackson, Knt., a (Turkey) merchant of London, by Mary his wife, daughter of Sir Peter Vandeput, Knt., sheriff of London in 1684, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir John Buckworth, Knt. of West Shun Surrc}-. Roger Morris died 13th Jan., 174S. The third son of Roger Morris and Mary Jackson was Roger IMorris, Esq., lieutenant-colonel in the British army, born 2Sth of Januaiy, 1727, married igth Januar}^, 1758, ]Mary. daughter of Frederick Philipse, last Lord of the Manor of Philipsburgh. It was from this lady's character that Cooper formed the heroine of " The Spy," under the name of Frances. Washington is said to have greatly admired her. Col. Roger Morris ser\-ed mth distinction in the first American war, and was wounded in the celebrated battle of the Monongahela Biver, in which General Braddock was killed with most of his officers.