The form of an iron furnace, iu deep shadow, on the southern side of the creek, was the only token of human labour to be seen in the view, except the cabin of the drawbridge keeper at my side.

A little north of Peek's Kill Hollow, as the valley is called by the inhabitants, is another, lying at the bases of the rugged Highlands, called the Canopus Hollow. It is a deep, rich, and interesting valley, through which flows the Canopus Creek. In its bosom is pleasant little Continental

* This railway-bridge and causeway is called Cortlandt Bridge. It is 1,496 feet in leugtli. At its nortli-western end is a gi-avelly hill, on which stood a battery, called Fort Independence, dm-ing the Eevohition. Tlie Indians called the Peek's Kill Mag-ri-ga-ries, and its vicinity Sack-hoes.

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Tillage, so named in the time of the Eevolution because the hamlet there was made a depot for Continental or Government cattle and stores. These were destroyed, three days after the capture of Forts Clinton and Montgomery, by Governor Tyron, at the head of a baud of German mercenaries known as Hessians, because a larger portion of the German troops, hired by the British Government to assist in crushing the rebellion in America, were furnished by the Prince of Hesse Casscl. Tryon, who

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had been governor of the colony of New York, and was now a brigadier in the royal army, hated the Americans intensely. He really seemed-to delight in expeditions of this kind, having almost destroyed Danbury, in Connecticut, and East Haven, Fairfield, and Norwalk, on the borders of Long Island Sound, in the same State. Now, after destroying the public stores and slaughtering many cattle, he set fire to almost every house in the villa2;e. In allusion to this, and the devastations on the Hudson,