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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 142 (part 4)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The result of sixty years of convict labor has been to leave the grounds back of the prison in a very rough and unsightly condition, with great excavations and enormous heaps of debris. The treatises of Prof. Dana and others, who have written on mineralogy, attribute many interesting minerals to this locality. The writer of this chapter has resided a third of a century at this place, and, notwithstanding the fact of his personal interest in the subject and his frequent excursions to the