The title of Port Washington was changed to that of Port Knyphausen, in honour of the Hessian general who was engaged in its capture. Port Lee was speedily approached by the British under Cornwallis, and as speedily abandoned by the Americans. The latter fled to the Eepublican camp at Hackensack, when Washington commenced his famous retreat through New Jersey, from the Hudson to the Delaware, for the purpose of saving the menaced federal capital, Philadelphia.

The view from the high point north of Port Lee is ext(.n?ivo and

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interesting, up and down the river. Across are seen the villages of Carmansville and Manhattanville, and fine country seats near ; while southward, on the left, the citv of Xew York stretches into the dim

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distance, with Stateu Island and the Narrows still beyond. On the right are the wooded cliffs extending to Hoboken, with the little villages of Pleasant Yallcy, Bull's Ferry, "Weehawk, and Hoboken, along the shore.

^ EOUT three miles below Fort Lee is Bull's Ferry,

a village of a few houses, and a great resort for

the working-people of Xew York, when spending

a leisure day. The steep, wooded bank rises

abruptly in the rear, to an altitude of about two

hundred feet. There, as at AVeehawk, are many

pleasant paths through the woods leading to vistas

through which glimpses of the city and adjacent waters arc

obtained. Hither pie-nic parties come to spend warm summer

days, where --

'■ Overhead The braiu'hos arch, and ^hape a iileasant bower. Breaking white doud, blue sky, and sunsliiiie bright. Into iiure ivory and sapiihiro spots, And flocks of geld ; a soft, cool emerald tint Colours the air, as thonjrh the delicate leaves Emitted self-bprii liglit."