For two miles we may pass between houses of the most costly description, built chiefly of brown freestone, some of it

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* The principal one of the remote sources of the Croton Eiver is a spring near the road side, not far from the liouse of William Hoag, on Quaker Hill, in the town of Pawling. The spring is by the side of a stone fence, with a barrel-curb, and is 1,300 feet above tide water.

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elaborately carved. Travellers agree that in no city in the world can be found an equal number of really splendid mansions in a single street ; they are furnished, also, in princely style. The side-walks are flagged Avith heavy blue stone, or granite, and the street is paved with blocks of the latter materiaL At Madison Square, between Twenty-third and Twenty-sixth Streets, it is crossed diagonally by Broadway, and there, as an exception, are a few business establishments. At the intersection, and fronting Madison Park, is the magnificent Fifth Avenue Hotel, built of white marble, and said to be the largest and most elegant in the world. As wo look up from near the St. Germain, this immense hoixsc, six stories in height, is seen on the left, and the trees of Madison Park on the right. In the middle distance is the "Worth House, a large private boarding establishment, and near it the granite monument erected by the city of New York to the memory of the late General William J. "Worth, of the United States army.