It is navigable for a mile and a half from its mouth, when it falls seventyfive feet, and furnishes power used by quite a large manufacturing village. It is usually incorrectly spelled "Wappingers. Its name is derived from

* The Arbor A^itffi is the Ihuya Occidentalis of Linnffius. It is not the genuine white cedar, although it frequently bears that name. In New England it is often called Hackmatack. Its leaves lie in tlattened masses along the stems, and each is filled with a vesicle containing a thin aromatic tiu'pentine. It bears yellowish brown cones, about five lines in length.

THE HUDSON.

the Wappingi tribe of Indians, who, with the Matteawans, inhabited this beautiful region on the Hudson, just north of the Highlands. It should be written Wappingi's Creek.

From that gravelly height the Highlands, the village of Newburgh, and a large portion of the lower part of the " Long Reach" from Newburgh to Crom Elbow, are seen; with the flat rock in the river, at the head of Newburgh Bay and near its western shore, known as Den DuyveVs Bans Kamer, or the Devil's Dance Chamber. This rock has a level surface of about half an acre (now covered Avith boantifnl Arbor Vitte shrubs), and is

MOUTH or WAPPINGI'S CREEK.

separated from the main-laud by a marsh. On this rock the Indians performed their peculiar semi-religious rites, called pow-iooivs, before going upon hunting and fishing expeditions, or the war-path. They painted themselves grotesquely, built a large fire upon this rock, and danced around it with songs and yells, making strange contortions of face and limbs, under the direction of their conjurors or " medicine men." They would tumble, leap, run, and yell, when, as they said, the Devil, or Evil Spirit, would appear in the shape of a beast of prey, or a harmless animal; the former apparition betokened evil to their proposed undertaking, and