From this hill, and its river slopes, comprehensive views may be had of some of the most charming scenery of the lower Hudson. Prom its summit, overlooking Sleepy Hollow, the eye commands a sweep of the Hudson from New York to the Highlands, a distance of fifty miles, and views in five or six counties in the States of New York and New Jersey. From the veranda of one of the cottages in the park, most charming glimpses may

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be obtained of portions of the village of Tarrytown,-" near, with its whart and railway station ; and of the Palisades below Piermont, the village of Piermont and its pier jutting into the Hudson a mile from the shore, the village of Pockland (formerly Snedcn's Landing), and the intervening

* The natives called this place A-Up-conck, or Place of Elms, that tree having been abundant thei-e in early times, and still ilourishes. The Dutch called it Terwen Dorp, or Wheat Town, because that cereal gi-ew luxuriantly upon the Greenburgh Hills and valleys around. As usual, the English retained a part of the Dutch naine, and called it Terwe Towti, from which is derived the modern pronunciation, Tarrj town. In the legend of " Sleepy Hollow," Mr. Irving says,--" The name was given, we are told, in former days by the good housewives of the adjacent co\intry, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village taverns on market days." So they called it Tarrytowu.

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