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.

rowed to Garrison's, where wo dismissed the y waterman, and took the cars for Peek's Kill, six miles below, a pleasant village lying at the river opening of a high and beautiful valley, and upon slopes that overlook a broad bay and extensive mountain ranges.^-' "We passed the night at the I'l*^/ house of a friend (Owen T. Coffin, Esq.), and from the lawn in 'Jir^ front of his dwelling, which commands the finest view of the -p river and mountains in that vicinity, made the sketch of the ^ Lower Entrance to the Highlands. On the left is seen the Bonder Berg, over and behind which Sir Henry Clinton's army marched to attack Forts Clinton and Montgomery. On the right is Anthony's Nose, with the site of Fort Independence between it and Peek's Kill ; and in the centre is Bear Mountain, at whose base is the beautiful Lake Sinnipink -- the "Bloody Pond" in revolutionary times. This view includes a theatre of most important historical events.