The tourist will find much pleasure in a voyage from the city through the East and Harlem liivers.

The " High Bridge," or aqueduct over which the waters of the Croton How from the main land to Manhattan Island, crosses the Island at One Hundred and Seventy-Third Street. It is built of granite. The aqueduct is fourteen hundred and fifty feet in length, and rests upon arches supported by fourteen piers of heavy masonry. Eight of these arches are eighty feet span, and six of them fifty feet. The height of the bridge, above tide water, is one hundred and fourteen feet. The structure originally cost about a million of dollars. Pleasant roads on both sides of the Harlem lead to the High Bi'idge, where full entertainment for man and horse maybe had. The "High Bridge" is a place of great resort in pleasant weather for those who love the road and rural scenery.

Abroad, macadamized avenue, called the " Kingsbridge Road," leads from the upper end of York Island to Manhattanville, where it connects with and is continued by the " Bloomingdale Road," in the direction of the city. The drive over this road is very agreeable. The winding

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avenue passes tliroiigli a narrow valley, part of the way between rugged hills, only partially divested of the forest, and ascends to the south-eastern slope of Mount Washington (the highest land on the island), on which stands the village of Carmansville. f At the upper end of this village, on the high rocky bank of the Harlem iJiver, is a fine old mansion, known