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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...side, and runs thus: ' i': . "Here reposes the mortal remains of John Pauxdij-g, Who died on the 18th day of February, 1818, in the 60th year of his age. On the morning of the" 23d of September, 1780, Accompanied by two young farmers of the county of Westchester, (Whose names will one day be recorded on their own deserved monuments, ) He intercepted the British Spy, Andre. Poor himself, He disdained to acquire wealth by sacrificing his Country. Rejecting the temptation of great rewards, -' He conveyed his prisoner to the American camp, and By this act of noble self-denial. The treason of Arnold was detected; The designs of the enemy baffled: West Point and the American Army saved, and these U. S. Now by the grace of God free and Independent, Rescued from imminent peril." On the opposite side is written--"The Corporation of the City of New York Erect this tomb, as a memorial Raised to Public Gratitude." On the East side is a beautiful wreath engraved on the marble with the word "Fidelity." Dans-kammer Point, on the western shore, presents the form of a peninsula. Knickerbocker in his narrative of Governor Stuyvesant's passage up the river, sayR: "Even now I have it on the point of my pen to relate how his crew was most horribly frightened on going on shore above ihe Highlands, by a gang of merry roystering devils frisking and curveting on a huge flat rock which projected into the river, and which is called the DnycelTs Dans-Kammer to this day." The next place of importance is Pocghkeefsie. which is situated about midway between New York and Albany, being seventy-four miles from either city. Its settlement by the Dutch took place in 1735. Its name is derived from the Indian word Apokeepsivg, signifying safe harbo...