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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 53 (part 2)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The captain, by the way, had an enormous nose, which was not unfrequently the subject of good natured remark; and he at once understood the mate's allusion. ' What,' says the captain, 'does that look like my nose? — call it then, if you please, Antony's Nose.' The story was repeated on shore, and the mountain thenceforward assumed the name, and has thus become an everlasting monu-