GEASSr POINT AND 'JOHN MOUNTAIN.

the time of Arnold's treason, in 1780 ; and hero were the head-quarters of Washington for some time in 1782. It was off this point that Henry Hudson first anchored the JIdf-Moon after leaving Yonkers. The Highland Indians flocked to the vessel in great numbers. One of them was killed in an afi'ray, and this circumstance planted ^the seed of hatred of the white man in the bosom of the Indians in that region.

From the southern slope of Stony Point, where the rocks lay in wild

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confusion, a fine view of Grassy Point, Brewster's Cove, Haverstraw Bay, the Torn Mountain, and the surrounding country may be obtained. The little village of Grassy Point, where brick-making is the staple industrial pursuit, 'appeared like a dark tongue thrust out from the surrounding whiteness, Haverstraw Bay, which swarms in summer with water-craft of every kind, lay on the left, in glittering solitude beneath the wintry clouds that gathered while I was there, and cast down a thick, fierce, blinding snow-shower, quite unlike that described by Bryant, when he sung --

'•Here delicate snow-stars out of the cloud, Come floating downward in airy play. Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd

That whiten by night the milky way ; There broader and burlier masses fall ; The sullen water buries them all :

Flake after flake, All drowned in the dark and silent lake."

The snow-shower soon passed by. The spires of Haverstraw appeared in the distance, at the foot of the mountain, and on the right was Treason Hill, with the famous mansion of Joshua Hett Smith, who was involved in the odium of Arnold's attempt to betray his country.