304 The Story of The Bronx 



borhood for patriotic celebrations. The lane leading to De 

 Voe's is still used to get to Yonkers; but the bridge over which 

 the remnant of Nimham's band fled across Tippett's Brook 

 has disappeared, and its site is doubtful. 



Van Cortlandt Park is connected with Bronx Park, which 

 lies almost south of it, by a fine parkway six hundred feet wide 

 and one and fourteen hundredths miles long, called the 

 Mosholu Parkway. Bronx Park is about two miles long and 

 contains 719.12 acres, lying between Morris Street in Williams- 

 bridge on the north; the Harlem Railroad, Fordham Univer- 

 sity, and the Southern Boulevard on the west; East i82d 

 Street on the south; and the White Plains Road, or Avenue, 

 for a long distance on the east. The Bronx River runs through 

 the park from north to south and divides the park nearly into 

 halves. Pelham Avenue, a continuation of the Fordham 

 Road, crosses the park from west to east, where it is continued 

 in The Bronx and Pelham Bay Parkway. The Coles Boston 

 Post-road passes through the southeastern part of the park 

 and along the western bank of the river, crossing it at the 

 site of Bronxdale. 



The park is most appropriately named ; for nowhere else does 

 one see to such good advantage the fine yet simple beauty of 

 the Bronx River. After passing under Williams's bridge 

 the stream wanders through the meadows in the northern 

 part of the park as if reluctant to pursue once more the rapid 

 rush of its up-stream course. Then it enters the narrow gorge 

 in the vicinity of the Lorillard mansion and rushes through 

 to reach the gentle, placid lakes below. It is in this part 

 of the park that we can understand the reason for the 

 Indian name of the river, the Aguahung, "a high bluff, or 

 bank." 

 As Drake sings: 



