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way. Near the mainland on each side of the neck are salt 

 marshes dotted with rocky hummocks which rise from ten to 

 twenty feet above the surrounding meadows; one of them to 

 the east is called "Indian Rock," which, so far as the author 

 can find out, has no particular significance, the name being 

 fanciful. These meadows are now being filled in with the 

 ashes and other rubbish collected by the Street Cleaning De- 

 partment. A good deal of the property along Westchester 

 Avenue is being graded and otherwise improved by the 

 American Realty Company. 



The old road used to pass from one little hummock to an- 

 other to the main part of the neck, which is nearly all less than 

 twenty feet above water, though rising in two places to forty 

 feet. At the end of the neck are a number of summer hotels, 

 bathing pavilions, moving-picture places, and other amusement 

 places of like character, making of the neck a sort of Coney 

 Island on a small scale. The spot has become very popular 

 since the closing of the Oak Point resort and the running of 

 the trolley three years ago, as one can get from almost any 

 part of the Borough to the resort for a five-cent fare. 



One of the hotels, the Clason's Point Inn, is partly of stone, 

 the older portion being the kitchen of the original Cornell 

 house, and another part attached to it being the remains of the 

 Willett and Clason mansion. A short distance from the inn 

 is a small stone structure which was formerly the smoke- 

 house of the ancient farmstead. When Mr. Clinton Stephens 

 took possession, he found the place in ruins, and was tempted 

 to pull them down completely; but the historic associations 

 finally prevailed, and he incorporated the remains of the old 

 buildings within the new, at considerable trouble and expense 

 to himself. O ! that there were more owners of historic places 

 like him! Above the entrance he has also placed a legend of 



