[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] return to New York. The highest point in Westchester County ( ac-HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY cording to the figures of the United States Coast Survey) is Anthony's Nose, 900 feet above half tide level. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY 9 Of the streams of Westchester County the names of two, the Croton and the Bronx, haYe become widely familiar. The former river is the chief source of the water supply of New York City; the latter — which, by the way, also furnishes water to New York — has many historic and romantic associations, dear to New Yorkers as well as West-chester people, and its name has been adopted for one of the beautiful new parks of the city, and also for one of the five grand divisions which constitute the Greater New York. Some half dozen streams of noticeable size find their outlets in the Hudson. Peekskill Creek gathers its waters from the hills of the northwestern corner of the county, and flows into the Hudson just above the village of Peekskill. Furnace Brook is a small rivulet which empties into the river several miles farther south. Then comes the Croton, having its outlet in Croton Bay, as the northeastern por-tion of the Tappan Sea is called. The Croton has its sources in Dutchess County — these sources com-prising three " branches " ( the East, Middle, and West), which unite in the southern part of Putnam County.