There, on a warm summer afternoon, or a moonlit evening, might be seen scores of both sexes strolling upon the soft grass, or sitting upon the green sward, recalling to memory many beautiful sketches of life in the early periods of the world, given in the volumes of the old poets. All is now changed ; the trips of Charon to the Elysian Fields are suspended, and the grounds, stripped of many of the noble trees, have become "private," and subjected to the manipulations of the "real estate agent." Even the Sibyl's Cave, under Castle

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Point,

at the southern boundary of the Elysian Fields -- a cool, rocky

cfivern

containing

1 spring -- has been spoiled by

the clumsy hand of Art.

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low promontory below Castle Point was the site of the large

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ladian village of Hohoclc. There the pleasant lil

tie city of Iloboken now

stands

, and few of its quiet denizens are aware

of the dreadful tragedy

performed in that

vicinity more than two hundrc

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may be related in few words. A fierce feud had existed for some time between the New Jersey Indians and the Dutch on Manhattan. Several of the latter had been murdered by the former, and the Hollanders had resolved on vengeance. At length the fierce Mohawks, bent on procuring tribute from the weaker tribes westward of the Hudson, came sweeping down like a gale from the north, driving great numbers of fugitives upon the Hackcnsacks at Hobock. !N'ow was the opportunity for the Dutch. A strong body of them, with some Mohawks, crossed the Hudson at midnight, in February, 1643, fell upon the unsuspecting Indians, and before morning murdered almost one hundred men, women, and children.