[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] was Washington Irving, whose delightful descriptions of Sleepy Hollow and the Pocantico have made this region famous and classical for all time. On the southern slope of Prospect Hill is the pleas-ant home of Mr. Stephen H. Thayer, who has lately given to the world avolumeof poemsentitled "Songs of Sleepy Hollow, and other Poems," and also that of Mr. H. Andrews. Farther down, but west of Jones Ave-nue, is " Anderson Park," with its fine brick mansion CROTON AQUEDUCT BRIDGE ACROSS THE POCANTICO. and well-kept grounds. The house was built and, for a time, occupied by the late John Anderson, " the millionaire tobacconist." He was a great friend of Garibaldi, the Italian patriot and commander, and did much to assist and encourage him. He also gave Peiiikese Island to Professor Louis Agassiz for his School of Natural History, and fifty thousand dollars to endow it. It is one of the privileges and duties of the historian