[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] September 27, according to Heath, " General Washington, cov-ered by the Dragoons and light infantry, reconnoitered the grounds on the east side of the river below the White Plains." Record of this enterprise appears also in Washington's "Accounts with the United States," as follows: "September, 1782.— To the Expences of a Reconnoitre as low as Philipsburg & thence across from Dobbs's ferry to ye Sound with a large Party of Horse, £32 Ss [lawful cur-rency]." In' that charming book of personal reminiscences, the Memoirs and Recollections of Count Segur, several pages are devoted to the impressions made upon the poetic temperament of the author during a sojourn at Rochambeau's cam]) at Crompond. The Count Segur i During the first two weeks, however, camp on the 26th of September, and found Rochambeau had his headquarters at Peekskill, Rochambeau qu£ ed at " I'iskill " [I'eek-,,-here also most of his army was apparently skill], whence, " a few days afterward, the stationed after its arrival. See, in this connec-French proceeded to occupy another position, lion, the Memoirs of Count Segur (Boston ed., "that of Crampont " [Crompond]. 1x25, pp. 275, 276). Count Segur arrived at the