V Adjoining Annandale on the south is Montgomery Place, the residence of the family of the late Edward Livingston, brother of the Chancellor, who is distinguished in the annals of his country as a leading United States senator, the author of the penal code of the State of Louisiana, and ambassador to France. The elegant mansion was built by the widow of General Richard Montgomery, a companion-in-arms of "Wolfe when he fell at Quebec, and who perished under the walls of that city at the head of a storming party of Pepublicans on the 31st of December, 1775. Montgomery was one of the noblest and bravest men of his age. "When he gave his young wife a parting kiss at the house of General Schuylei',

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at Saratoga, and hastened to join that oiScer at Tieonderoga, in the campaign that proved fatal to Lim, he said, " You shall never blush for your Montgomery." Gallantly did he vindicate that pledge. And when his virtues were extolled by Earre, Burke, and others in the British parliament, Lord North exclaimed, " Curse on his virtues ; he has undone his country, "y

The wife of Montgomery was a sister of Chancellor Livingston. "With ample pecuniary means and good taste at command, she built this mansion.

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and there spent fifty years of widowhood, childless, but cheerful. The mansion and its 400 acres passed into the possession of her brother Edward, and there, as we have observed, members of his family now reside. Of all the fine estates along this portion of the Hudson, this is said to be the most perfect in its beauty and arrangements. Waterfalls, picturesque bridges, romantic glens, groves, a magnificent park, one of the most beautiful of the ornamental gardens in this country, and views of the river and mountains, unsurpassed, render Montgomery Place a retreat to be coveted, even by the most favoured of fortune. ,