Illustrations xvii 



The Gouverneur Morris Mansion. View from the Bronx 

 Kills Side 364 



Buildings on Randall's Island 364 



Morrisania, about 1861, 160th Street at the Junction of 



Brook and Third Avenues 365 



From an old print in the Collection of J. Clarence Davies, Esq. 



The Mott Haven Canal 365 



The Lorelei Fountain, or Heinrich Heine Monument, 

 Mott Avenue and East 161 st Street, at the Beginning 

 of the Concourse 372 



The Cromwell House, near Jerome Avenue, above 

 Central Bridge ........ 372 



Bronx Borough Hall Decorated for the Hudson-Fulton 

 Celebration, 1909 376 



Photograph by Joseph F. Hefele. 



De Lancey Mills and Mansion, Westchester . . 377 



Redrawn by W. J. Wilson from Bolton's History of Westchester 

 County. 



The Grave of Joseph Rodman Drake, Hunt's Point . 382 



The Hunt House (1688), or the "Grange," the Resi- 

 dence of Joseph Rodman Drake, Hunt's Point . 382 



The De Lancey Pine ..... 

 The Soldiers' Monument at West Farms 

 The Causeway and Bridge. Westchester 

 Looking across the Creek (1903). Westchester 

 The Sydney Bowne Store (1903), Westchester 



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 392 

 398 

 398 

 399 



The Westchester Methodist Episcopal Church, Walker 

 Avenue ......... 399 



