ANDRE'S ROUTE, I17 



shores, and not a particle of pollution can enter 

 the lake, as it will all be carried down below 

 the dam." 



Such are the differences of opinion which 

 may be decided at some future day when the 

 younger readers of these pages are gray- 

 headed. 



Turning from the river at Pine's Bridge, a 

 locality made famous by the passage of Andre, 

 we follow the road to Bedford. It is certain 

 that Andre crossed this bridge. Nothing else 

 pertaining to his exciting ride is more sure. 

 That he landed at Verplanck's Point, and was 

 afterwards captured at Tarrytown, is not more 

 so, but he appears to have had so little topo- 

 graphical knowledge, and Avas naturally so 

 confused, that, in his narrative to Lieut. King, 

 he could not give an exact account of his jour- 

 ney. Historians have since duly lined it out 

 and have given him a great many parallel roads 

 to travel upon. If you ask any old farmer in 

 Verplanck's, Peekskill, Shrub Oak, or York- 

 town, about it, he will say that he has "hear'n 

 tell that Andree passed directly by his house." 

 It is at all events undeniable that he could not 

 have reached Tarrytown without crossing this 

 bridge unless he forded the river. 



