[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Bedford border lies Byram Pond, a beautiful lake a mile in length, with a precipitous wooded hill on the west, and on the east the sloping fields of the adjacent farms. Out of it flows the Byram River, the eastern boundary of the old West Patent. Crossing the town, it enters Connecticut, and for the last few miles of its progress towards the sound, becomes the bound-ary between the two states. Nestled among the Co-hamong Hills, a mile east of Byram Pond, lies the little Cohamong Pond, whose waters find their way northward, by Cohamong Brook, through Bedford to the Mianus River. On the New Castle boundary is Wampus Pond, named after the Indian Sachem whose wigwam stood a little to the northward. Out of it tumbles Wampus Brook, on which, in 1737, John Hallock obtained the town's consent to build his mill. It llnws mi. i ilic Byram. The Mianus, rising in Con-NORTH CASTLE. 637 nectieut, flows northward through the town, bends