[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] George McChain, who behaved with the utmost gallantry on this occasion, was killed; the rest of the party effected their escape on the ice. A beautiful lane leads from the ferry-house east to the Croton bridge, which crosses the river a short distance from Joseph Bay-ley's wire manufactory. Below the bridge the river is seen ex-panding into a wide bay, ornamented with picturesque islands, points of land, and lofty banks, covered with clusters of rich fo-liage. On the evening of October the 1st, 1609, Henry Hudson anchored the Half-Moon at the mouth of the Croton. The bay was once famous throughout the country as the favorite resort of vast flocks of canvass back ducks, and shoals of shad fish. The Van Corilandt Cemetery is situated on the summit of a hill west of the mansion. Here is a marble tomb erected to the Memory of the Honorable Pierre van Cortlandt, late Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York, and President of the Convention that framed itie Constitution thereof during the Revolutionary war with Great Britain. He departed this life on the first day of