ceived it from the Patroon Van Rensselaer in 1720. About 1787 the site of the future eity was laid out in town lots. At West Tro)-- or Watcr^dlet-- ui 181 3, the United States Government purchased groun d upon which was established an arsenal, near the presen t east bank of the Erie Canal. Sex'cral widely known educational establishments add interest to a city that is not devoid of beauty, though lacking the charm of man>- a Hudson River town.

For man}' )-ears the Poestenkill and Wynant's Kill, which enter the river at this place, ha^^e furnis hed a great deal of the water-i)ower for the local mills. The largest of the Hudson's tributaries, the Mohawk, adds Its volume to our river a few miles above Troy. The course of the Hudson above tide-water may be briefly outlined here. Its north branch rises in Indian Pass, at the foot of Mount McInt>Te, in the Adirondacks; and the east branch has its source in the lake called "Tear of the Clouds," above which rises Mount Tahawas, fifty -four hundred feet in height. The stream takes in, first, the Boreas River and the Schroon, and fifteen miles north of Saratoga recei^•es the water of the Sacandaga. South of that the Battenkill is added to it, and, between the Battenkill and the Mohawk, the Walloomsac. It will be noticed that these streams, with two exceptions, have Indian names, and this recalls the prophecy of a dying chief, who, while chanting his death-song, surrounded bv his enemies, foretold the disappearance of his race, but