[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] He was im-mediately tried as a spy from the enemy, sentenced to suffer death, and was executed accordingly."^ The most interesting evidence, (remarks a recent traveller,) that there is a spark of public spirit existing in this ancient set-tlement which will sooner or later burst into a flame, is to be found in the establishment of a high school, and the erection of a very neat, spacious and appropriate edifice for that purpose on a most delightful eminence, where the healthful and invigorating breeze from the towering mountains in the vicinity pours forth its medicinal influence, and where the soul alive to the senti-ments of beauty, variety and sublimity, can view wiih rapture the variegated and picturesque scenery, the beautiful and expan-sive bay, the towering and gigantic Dunderberg, the " race," and » N. Y. Gazeteer. b Thatcher's Journal. 64 HISTORY OF THE the opening of the majestic Highlands. But my pen affords an altogether inadequate description of the scene. Peekskill is certainlj^ well situated for purposes of education, furnishing as it does facilities for communicating daily, nay, al-most hourly, with the great city; and from my own personal in-ference, as well as the testimony of others, I doubt whether there is a place in the whole range of the Hudson, where health can be more conveniently soi^oht, or more surely gained.