[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] the cause of his country afforded a pledge of a faithful and hon-orable discharge of duty. Let the reader imagine the grateful emotions of Col. Livingston, his increased esteem for his com-mander, and the alacrity with which, under such an impulse, he went back to his station of high trust and danger.''^ One of the most interesting associations connected with this spot, is the recollection, that here were located the head-quarters of General Washington. " On my return from the southward in 1782," says the translator of Chastellux, (who has thought proper to withhold his name,) " T spent a day or two at the American camp at Verplanck's Point, where I had the honor of dining with General Washington. I had suffered severely from an ague which I could not get quit of, though I had taken the exercise of a hard trotting horse, and got thus far to the northward in the month of October. The General observing it, told me he was sure 1 had not met with a good glass of wine for some time— an article then very rare — but that my dis-a Sparks' Life of Arnold, p. 249. b Sparks' Life of Arnold, p. 253.