[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] ceived the river in its first course of thirty miles, very gradually widening un-til it suddenly presented the broad expanse of a bay (' Tappaanse Zee.') Then » At Bergen Point. b At the head of the Highlands. e South peak of Vredidcka Hook. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 93 as he passed into another, (Haverstraw,) and viewed the insuperable barriers of mountains that lay before him, he considered his discovery terminated, un-til, in searching for a passage, he found one which proved to be the continua-tion of a river, now serpentining in its course, deepening and narrowing, until it brought him to ' where the land grew very high and mountainous.' Here he anchored for the ensuing night. a This was directly opposite West Point." Diirino^ the revolutionary war two British vessels were sunk in the race directly opposite Fort. Independence. Abont thirty years since, several cannon were raised from these vessels by the aid of the diving bell. f In the northwest corner of Cortlandtown is situated '' Antonie's Neus," or St. Anthony's Nose, a well known peak of the High-lands. General Van Cortlandt, the present proprietor of the Nose, gives the following origin of that name : — " Before the Revolution a vessel was passing up the river un-der the command of a Capt. Hogans. When immediately oppo-site this mountain, the mate looked rather quizzically, first at the mountain and then at the captain's nose.