n'he chief attraction at Yonkers for the antiquary is the Philipse Manor Hall, a spacious stone edifice, that once belonged to the lords of Philipse Manor. The older portion was built in 1682. The present front, forming an addition, was erected in 1745, when old " Castle Philipse," at Sleepy Hollow, was abandoned, and the Manor Hall became the favourite dwelling of the family) Its interior construction (preserved by the present owner, the Hon. W. W. Woodworth, with scrupulous care) attests the wealth and taste of the lordly proprietor. iThe gi^eat Hall, or passage, is

* Tlie domain included in the towns of Yonkers, West Farms, and Morrisania waa purchased of the IndiaW by Adiiaen Van der Donck, the "first lawyer in New Netherland," and confirmed to him in l(iI6 by grant from the Dutch West India Company, with the title and privilege of Patroon. It contained 2-1,000 acres. He called it Colen Donck, or Donck's Colony. Van der Donck, who died in 1655, was an active man in New Amsterdam (now New York), and took part with the people against the governor when disputes arose. He wrote an interesting description of the country. After the English conquest of New Netherland, Frederick Pliilipse and others purchased a greater portion of his estate on the Hudson and Harlem rivers.

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broad, and the staircase capacious and massive. The rooms are largo, and the ceilings are lofty; all the rooms are wainscoted, and the chief apartment has beautiful ornamental work upon the ceiling, in high relief, composed of arabesque forms, the figures of birds, dogs, and men, and two, medallion portraits. Two of the rooms have carved chimney-pieces of grey Irish marble. The guest-chamber, over the drawing-room, is