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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 56 (part 5)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Cornelius Lambert, Henry Lambert and Lambert Lambert, were boat-men along with me." Four or five miles below Verplanck's Point can be distinctly seen Smith's house, where the interview took place between Andre and Arnold, and where the latter gave the spy the fatal papers that proved his ruin. In describing the scenery of this beautiful spot, Mr. N. P. Wil-lis remarks : *' It is not easy to pass and repass the now peaceful and beautiful waters of this part of the Hudson, without recalling to mind the scenes and actors in the great drama of the Revolu-tion, which they not long ago bore on their bosom. The busy Heath's Mem. 221. b Heath's Mem. 216.