766 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



kins, Thomas Thomas, Jesse Tinesdale and Isaac Keeler, the Trustees named in 

 said application and their successors, might be a Body corporate and Politic by 

 the Name and Style of The Trustees of the Academy of Noin-n Salem, in the 

 Count? of West Chester. Now, Know Ye, that the said Regents having in- 

 quired into the allegations contained in the said Instrument in writing aforesaid, 

 and found the same to be true, and concerning the said Academy calculated for 

 the Promotion of Literature, Do, by these Presents, pursuant to the State in such 

 case made and provided, signify our approbation of the Incorporation of the said 

 Ebenezer Purdy, John Delivan, Solomon Close, Samuel Barnam, Benjamin 

 Wood, Thaddeus Close, Philip Livingston, Benjamin Haight, Uriah Wallace, 

 Hackaliah Brown, Ebenezer Lockwood, John Davenport, John Strong, Silas 

 Constant, Ichabod Lewis, Samuel Mills, Philip von Cortlandt, Jonathan G. Tom- 

 kins, Thomas Thomas, Jesse Tinesdale and Isaac Keeler, the Trustees of the said 

 academy, as aforesaid named by the Founders thereof, by the name of the 

 Trustees of the Academy of North Salem, in the County of West Chester, being 

 the name mentioned in and by the said request in writing. In Testimony, where- 

 of, we have caused our Common seal to be hereunto affixed the eighteenth day of 

 March, in the fourteenth year of American Independence. 

 Witness, George Clinton, Esquire, 



Chancellor of the University. 



GEORGE CLINTON, Chancellor. 



By order of the Regents, 



Rich. Harrison, Secretary.* 



About half a mile west of the Academy is to be seen a singular phe- 

 nomenon, called the Natural Bridge. " Here are two streams which 

 meet and run under the road, the one flowing from the east along the 

 road-side, enters the ground twenty- five or thirty feet east of where it 

 seems to cross the road ; the stream from the north-east, appears to run 

 nearly straight, directly under the road, and issues from the earth again, 

 after falling ten or fifteen feet lower than where it enters ; but the place 

 where it issues from the earth, is, at least, twenty-five feet perpendicular, 

 the top of which precipice is within ten or fifteen feet from the side of 

 the road. The two streams, although they enter the ground so far from 

 each other, unite under ground and come up together." The question 

 how these effects are to be accounted for, is a matter we leave to abler 

 philosophers than ourselves to determine. " Crow Hill," so named after 

 one of the Indian Sagamores, who sold land bordering on Wepack, or 

 Long Pond, to the proprietors of Ridgefield in 1729, lies half a mile to 

 the north-east of the Natural Bridge. There is a lofty hill in the south- 

 ern part of the town, bordering the Bedford Road, called "Turkey 

 Hill," on account of the great number of wild turkeys that once fre- 

 quented it. 



a Copiod from the original docnment in the possession of the Board of Trustees. 

 Secretary of State's office, Albany, Miscellaneous Book, M. R.A. p. 303. 



