Dock Gin" for sale, and that another sells " Paphian Lotion for beautifying the Hair." "VYe protest, in the name of every person of taste Avho travels upon the river and the road, against any disfiguring of the picturesque scenery of the Hudson Highlands, by making the out-cropping rocks of the grand old hills play the part of those itinerants who walk the streets of New York with enormous placards on their backs, advertising wares for sale ; and the Legislature of the State of New York, which, in I8G0, made such disfiguration a penal oifence, deserves high praise.

We crossed the river from Buttermilk Fall to the " Beverly Dock,"

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which is interesting only as the place where Arnold, the traitor, entered his barge in which he escaped to the Vulture sloop-of-war, on the morning when he fled from tlie " Beverly House, " the cause of which we have already considered. Here he kept his barge moored, and here he embarked on that flight which severed him for ever from the sympathies of his countrymen -- ay, of the world -- for those who ''accepted the treason, despised the traitor." His six oarsmen on that occasion, unconscious of the nature of the general's errand in such hot haste down the river, had their muscles strengthened by a promised reward of two gallons of rum ; and the barge glided with the speed of the wind. They were awakened to a sense of their position only when they were detained on board the Vulture as prisoners, and saw their chief greeted as a friend by the enemies of their country. They were speedily set at liberty, in New York, by Sir Henry Clinton, who scorned Arnold for his meanness and ti'eachcry.