[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] North of the house rises Gallows Hill, where Palmer, the spy, was hung. From this point the party proceeded on their way to West Point, from whence Andre was con-veyed by water to King's Ferry, and then to Tappan, the headquarters of General Washington. The "Vulture" lay in her hist position until the morning of the lilili of September, when a boat was observed coming swiftly down the river, the oarsmen bending themselves to unusual exertions. On this boat was Benedict Arnold, whom a letter, received as he was taking breakfast at West Point, had informed of the failure of the plot and the discovery of his villany, and who had departed with all possible haste. " His guilty soul peopling every turn of the river with [rring'i " Ufa of Washington," Vol. Hi., p. ss. -WiifliiiiRtou'ri onler lo Colonel JanH'Hon. CORTLANDT. 373 avenging pursuit, he sailed through the Highlands, waving his handkerchief as a Hag to his torts, redoubts and patrols, astonishing the vigilant Livingston at Ver-planck's with the speetaele of his commander making straight for a British sloop-of-war, and draws his first free breath of relief as he steps on board of the ' Vulture.'"1 Once on board of the ship Arnold offered his men rewards if they would join the British. They re-fused, and he commanded them to be made prisoners. When the sloop arrived in New York, General Sir Henry Clinton, despising the meanness of this action, set them all at liberty.