On its southeastern borders, excep ting where the village and ice-houses skirt it, are steep, rugged shores, "Westward, a fertile country stretches away many a niilc to rough hills and blue mountains. The lake is an ii-regular ellipse in form, half a mile in length, and three-fourths of a mile at its greatest width, and covers about five hundred acres. It is supplied by springs in its own bosom, and clear mountain brooks, and forms the head waters of the Hackensack river, which flows through New Jersey, and reaches the

salt water in Newark Bay. Near its outlet, upon a grassy peninsula, is the residence of Moses Gr. Leonard, Esq., seen in the picture ; and in the distance, from our point of view, is seen the peak of the great Torn Mountain, back of Haverstraw. Along the eastern margin of the lake were extensive buildings for the storeage of ice in winter, at which time a thousand men were sometimes employed. The crop averaged nearly two hundred thousand tons a-ycar ; and during the warm season, one hundred men were employed in conveying it to the river, and fifteen

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barges were used in transporting it to New York, for distribution there, and exportation.

"We crossed the bay to Croton Point, visited the villa and vineyards of

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Doctor XJnderhill, and then rowed up Croton Bay to the mouth of the river, passing, on our way, under the drawbridge of the Hudson Eiver Railway. It was late in the afternoon. There was a remarkable