[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 13th, makes this clear. It is as follows : "Sept. 14th. — In the morning we sailed nii tlio river twelve leagues... and came to a strait between two points,... and it (the river) trended northeast by north one league.... The river is a mile broad; there is very high hind on both sides. Then we Went up northwest a league and a hall, deep water; then northeast five miles; then northwest by north two leagues and a half. The land grew very high and mountainous, etc." So says the Journal. The course of the river and tin' conformation of its shores make it certain that tho "strait between two points," hero spoken of, was the strait between Stony Point and Verplanrk's. The point of anchorage on the night of the I:ith hail been twelve leagues (thirty-six miles) south of this strait. The tables of the Hudson Kiver Ibiilioad give the distance from Montrose Station ( Verphmck's) to Man-hattanville as about thirty four miles. The point of anchorage, there-fore, was two miles lower, "i it b ast as fur south as Kighty-tifth Street. And now, going back to the journal of the 18th, we have til i --tatr-inent, — "We anchored all night and had a high point of laud, whkh showoilout to us, liearing north hyeast, live leagues off from ns." What wiis this point ? Not "Tedious Point," above. Nviirk. but the north end of the Palisades, nearly op|uisitr Dohbs Kerry. This point was about "fl\e leagues oil ' from Kighly-fiflh Street. And if any one will lake