[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] NEW CASTLE. 013 line to Bronx's river, and so running southward along the said Bronx's river,"1 etc. It was supposed when this description was written, that a " due east line " from the point mentioned on the Croton would find the source of the Bronx; but when the survey came to be made, it was found thatt the Bronx had its origin too far south for that, so the present line was run southeasterly to the Bronx River at the point known in the early descriptions as "the head of the Bronx," where the towns of North Castle, New Castle and Mount Pleasant now come together. Had the theory of Frederick Philipse proved correct, his manor would have been.bounded on the north by the Manor of Cortlandt and would have extended east nearly to the Bedford line. As it was, there remained be-tween the two manors an irregular tract, running to an acute angle at the Cro-ton River two miles from its mouth, which has be-come the present town of New Castle, the shape and origin of which were doubtless well understood