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Title: Rand
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946
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Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd bloody, was decisive. One solitary horseman was seengalloping off in the direction of Yonkers, and he alone, woundedand unarmed, reached the camp of Col. Emmerick in safety.Here he related the particulars of the march, the sudden onset andretreat. Astonished and maddened with rage, Emmerick startedhis whole command in pursuit. Poor Post was stripped for hisfidelity, and after having a sufficient number of blows inflictedupon his person, left for dead. Earlier than this, however, Hastings had acquired notorietyfrom the fact that there Cornwallis embarked his army for thesubjugation of Fort Lee, following the capture of Fort Wash-ington. A charming walk or bicycle-run of li miles may be takenfrom Hastings northward to Dobbs Ferry, along the old post-road,which is shaded all the way, mainly by ancient locust trees; andno walls or high hedges prevent a view of the orderly and tastefulgrounds that continuously border the avenue. Dobbs Ferry is an exceedingly pretty village, whose homely
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NEW YORK TO TARRTTOWN. 45 name is the bequest of the ancient family of Dobbs (Dobb—hisferry, says Mr, Sparrowgrass), who whilome farmed and feiriedthe contiguous land and water. As early as 1698 there lived hereor hereabouts a Jan Dobs and his wife, who were members of thenow venerable old church in Sleepy Hollow. The village covershill and dell, rising charmingly from the river shore to the crestsof lofty ridges, and is planted thick vrith sumptuous homes. Thereis one summer hotel, the Glen Tower, whose yellow front andfine grounds overlook the river below the station, and a boarding-house or two; but none of the villages in this part of the countryare resorts, being composed almost wholly of those who ownand occupy their premises the most of, if not all, the year. Justabove the village is Nuits, the residence of F. Cottinet, a beau-tiful Italian structure of imported Caen stone. Adjoining it,northward, stands Nevis, the estate of the late Col. JamesHamilton, son and biographer of

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