[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] NORTH SALEM. BY CHARLES E. CULVER, Of Somen, North Salem is in the northeastern portion of Westchester County, and is situated about fifty miles from New York, twenty-five from White Plains and one hundred from Albany. It is nearly square in shape, being some five and a half miles east and west and four miles north and south. It is bounded on the east by the Connecticut State line, on the west by Somers (the Croton River forming the dividing line between the towns), on the north by Putnam County and south by Lewisboro'. Its principal stream is the Mughtiticoos, as its aboriginal owners styled it, now-called Tiiicus River, which traverses the town from east to west, very near the centre, and empties into the Croton at Purdy's Station, on the New York and Harlem Railroad. This stream furnishes abundance of water-power, is of rapid current, and is well sup-plied by springs along its entire river bed. It flows through a narrow valley, bordered by rising ground on either side. At certain points the hills seem almost to crowd the rushing rapids of the river into an exceptionally narrow gorge between rocky and wooded banks. The hills on either side of this val-ley rise to one hundred or three hundred feet and present a rugged, forest-covered country, with here and there glimpses of fine fertile tracts of meadow and upland, cultivated farms and handsome resi-