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

handsomely decorated with ornamental architecture, and some of the fireplaces are surrounded with borders of ancient Dutch tiles. The well has a subterranean passage leading from it, nobody knows to where ; and the present ice-house, seen on the right of the picture, composed of huge walls and massive arch, was a powder-magazine in the ** olden time." Altoge,ther, this old hall -- one of the antiquities of the Hudson -- is an

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attractive curiosity, which the obliging proprietor is pleased to show to those M^ho visit it because of their reverence for things of the past. It possesses a bit of romance, too ; for here was born, and here lived, Mary i'hilipse, whose charms captivated the heart of young^WashingtonJ but whose hand Avas given to another, as we shall observe hereafter. ^n the river, in front of Yonkers, the Half-Moon, Henry Hudson's

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exploring vessel, made her second anchorage after leaving New York Bay. It was toward the evening of the 12th of September, 1609 ; the explorer had then been several days in the yiciniij oi: Man-7i(i-Jiat- fa, as the Indians called the island on which New York stands, and had had some intercourse with the natives. " The twelfth," says " Master Ivet (Juet) of the Lime House," who wrote Hudson's journal, " fuire and hot.