d to have sheltered a retinue of thirty white and twenty
colored servants. Here was born Mary Philipse, July 3, 1730, the
heroine of Cooper's "Spy," and the girl who is said to have refused
Washington. In January, 1758, she married Col. Roger Morris. Tradition
tells how, amid the splendors of the wedding feast, a tall Indian,
wrapped in his scarlet blanket, suddenly appeared in the doorway and
solemnly predicted that the family possessions should pass from its
control "When the eagle shall despoil the lion of his mane." The
mystery was explained later when the property was confiscated because
of the royalist leanings of the family.

The site of Pomona Hall, burned some twenty years ago, where Burr took
refuge for a time after the Hamilton duel, is now occupied by a modern
public school. It bordered the Post Road toward the northern edge of
the village, commanding a fine view of the Hudson.

Just inside the northern township line of Yonkers, in the river's
edge, lies the Great Stone, Mackassin, of the Indians, the
"copper-colored stone," an enchanted rock which was an object of
veneration, and on whose flat surface the aborigines probably held
sacred feasts. Originally it stood out in the water, but the railway
embankment has changed all this, and now it is overshadowed by great
advertising boards which the pale-face provides for his traveling
brother to feast his eyes upon.

For some miles, practically as far as the Croton River, the way is
lined with the fine estates of the wealthy, some made notable by
reason of their owners, as Greystone, the former home of Samuel J.
Tilden. It is no uncommon thing to have some particularly fine lawn
pointed out as the most perfect in the country. If what the local
patriots say is true, there is at least one such in every village
hereabouts.

This region is a bit too thickly settled for the pedestrian who, with
his knapsack slung over his shoulder, receives more attention from
nurse maids and children than is sometimes comfortable, but it is
easily possible to send one's impedimenta on by rail if the night's
stopping place can be figured out in advance, and he can then progress
without fear of gibe or jeer.

[Sidenote: _GREENBURGH._]

Greenburgh, "Graintown" bounds Yonkers on the north. Here, the present
site of Dobbs Ferry, was the Indian town of Weck-quas-keck, "the place
of the bark kettle." It was the unprovoked murder of an Indian here
and its subsequent revenge that led