Kill, or Sleepy Haveu Creek, and the valley in the .vicinity of the old church, through which it flowed, Slaeperigh Uol, or felecpy Hollowy the scene of Washington Irving's famous legend of that name.

The little old churchHs a curiosity. It ■^as huilt, says an inscription upon a small marble tablet on its front, by "Frederic Philips and Catharine Van Cortland, his wife, in 1699," and is the oldest church edifice existing in the State of New York. It was built of brick and stone, the former imported from Holland for the purpose. Over its little

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Spire still turns the flag-shaped vane of iron, in which is cut the monograni of its founder (VF in combination, his name being spelt in Dutch, Vedryck Flypsen) ; and in the little tower hangs the ancient bell, beai"ingthe inscription in Latin, "7/" God he for %is, %cho can he against us? 1685." The pulpit and communion table were also imported from Holland. The former was long since destroyed by the iconoclastic hand of "improvement."]

^t this quiet old church is the opening of Sleepy Hollow, upon the shores of the Hudson, and near it is a rustic bridge that crosses the

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Po-can-te-co, a little below the one made famous in Irving' s legend by an amusing incident.* In this vicinity, according to the legend, Ichabod

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Crane, a Connecticut schoolmaster, instructed "tough, wrong-headed,

* " Over a deep, black part of the stream, not far from the church," says Mr. Ir\-iiig, in his " Legend of Sleepy Hollow," " was formerly tlirown a wooden bridge ; the road that led to it, and the biidge itself, were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it even in the daytime, but occasioned a fearful darkness at night."