[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] wigwams, scant attire, dark superstitions, implements of hunting and war and general habits of life. Let him set aside all present buildings and streets and restore the original conditions of the river-front. Let him bring back the forests and wild beasts, hush the hum of mills and the whistles of factories and locomotives, and put back the purity of the Nepperhan with the other conditions, as we have described them, of the original natural scene. Upon that scene have passed in two hundred and seventy-seven years all the all the way from Spuyten Duyvil to the Sing Sing Creek, and at tin north extended eastward to the Armonck (now the Byram) River. Along the Hudson it had at least three villages, — Alipconck (Tarrytown), Weck-quaskeek (Dobbs Ferry) and Nappeckamack (Yonkers), at the mouth ol the Nepperhan. When De Vries speaks of Weckquaskeek, he refers not to the family, but to the middle one of these three villages. Van Tienhoven, Director Kieft's secretary, also refers to the middle village when he speaks of Weckquaskeek as "five (fifteen English) miles above New Amsterdam." Bolton (" History of Westchester County ") says in his Introduction : "The Manhattans had their principal settlement on New York Island and from thence north to the bounds of Yonkers, nearly opposite Tap-paau." He, of course, based this Statement on tho passages we have ex plained.