[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] beach form " clumps " or islands, c uriously worn and perforated. Bar Rock is the clump which at low tide is connected with the beach by a sand-bar; Humph-rey's Rock is the clump south of Car Rock; Black Tom lies east of Parsonage Point;1 Wrack Clump, southeast of Pine Island, is so called from the fact that many vessels have been wrecked on its rocks. The settlement of Rye dates back more than two hundred years to the time when the Dutch were still in possession of the province they called " New Neth-erlands It was in Westchester County that the troubles of the Dutch with the Indian tribes of the interior commenced. Here also began those difficulties with the English which, though less san-guinary, foreboded much more clearly the termination of the Dutch rule. The region that included the site of the present town of Rye was an almost unbroken wilderness. Except along the seaboard, no settlement had been effected by either Dutch or English. The country lying between the Hudson and the Byram Rivers was claimed by a part of the Mohegan tribe. Their villages were most numerous along the shores of the Sound. A Mohegan village stood near the beach. The level grounds along the shores of the creek north