[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] being accounted of excellent flavor, excepting about the wound, where it smacked a little of brimstone; and this, on my veracity, was the first time that ever sturgeon was eaten in these parts by Christian peo-ple. " When this astonishing miracle came to be known to Peter Stuvvesant, and that he tasted of the un-known fish, he, as may well be supposed, marveled exceeding; and as a monument thereof, he gave the name of Anthony's Nose to a stout promontory in t he neighborhood; and it has continued to be called An-thony's Nose ever since that time." Roa Hook. — On the opposite side of Annsville Creek at the point known as Roa or Roay and formerly Roya Hook, stood the old Revolutionary Fort Inde-pendence. In 1846 and for about three years subse-quently some of the larger boats used to stop at this point. A large hotel had been built there about the same time by Pierre Van Cortlandt, known as the Fort Independence Hotel, and access to the village was furnished by a wooden bridge across the mouth of the creek, fourteen hundred and ninety-six feet long. The bridge has long since rotted and been carried away. The hotel and the old fort have both disappeared, owing to the taking away of a great portion of the valuable gravel of which the hook is composed. The gravel is of a superior quality, and has been used for a top dressing for the walks in Central Park, New York, and has been taken to other places.