Not far off my women slept, and opposite to me three English officers, who, though wounded, were determined not to he left behind : one of them was Captain Green, an aide-de-camp to Major-General Phillips, a very valuable officer and most agreeable man. They each made me a most sacred promise not to leave me behind, and, in case of sudden retreat, that they would each of them take one of my children on his horse ; and

THE HUDSON.

for myself one of my husband's was in constant readiness The

want of water distressed us much : at length we found a soldier's Avife

THE EEIDESEL HOUSE.

who had courage enough to fetch us some from the river -- an office nobody else would undertake, as the Americans shot at every person who approached it, but out of respect for her sex they never molested her."

CELLAR OF EEIDESEL HOUSE.

Six days these ladies and their companions remained in that cellar, when hostilities ceased, and the British army surrendered to the Americans.

THE HUDSON.

The village of Sclmylerville is pleasantly situated upon a slope on the western margin of the Tipper Hudson valley, on the north bank of the rish Creek (the outlet of Saratoga Lake), which there leaps to the plain in a series of beautiful cascades, after being released from the labour of turning several mill-wheels. These cascades or rapids commence at the bridge where the public road crosses the creek, and continue for many rods, until a culvert under the Champlain Canal is passed. Viewed from the grounds around the Schuyler mansion, at almost every point, they