appropriate designations, they frequently receive the names of such European animals as they most resemble; but these names are by no means settled; for instance, what are known as Partridges in one part of the Country are called Quails in another, and these birds will alight in Trees, or on Paling. The Hares have white flesh. I have been informed that some Sporting Gentlemen have imported the English Red Fox as affording better diversion than the native Grey; and that although the Red Fox is the smaller animal, it is the more ferocious, and is eatingout the Grey one, in the same manner that the Grey, or common Brown Norway Rat has eaten out the native Black Rat of England. The Black Rat was, however, a smaller animal than the Grey. Mr. Bullock, of Liverpool, had one of the old English Black Rats in his Museum, the only one I ever saw.

At the cottage observed a child about three years of age, whose foot having been much burnt had been bound up close to the leg, and now adhered to it; he walked on his heel. 9 A. M. Got under weigh; head wind.

1 P. M. L Mills, are superior to most in construction and situation, and very profitable; four pairs of stones; fifty-five miles from New York; the Miller takes down a cargo of flour and returns with wheat.

3 P. M. Landed at West-Point,* the Gibraltar of America; centre of the Highlands; fiftyeight miles from New York. Yet, who would have ever heard of West-Point but for the defection of Arnold, and the melancholy death of Major André!

Lieutenant Kipp being personally acquainted with the Commandant Captain Stille, and Messrs. Williams and Putnam bearing letters to him, we were politely received, and permitted to range over this impregnable fortress. Though very sultry, we could not resist the temptation of climbing up to the ruins of Fort Putnam; where

* West-Point, sixty miles north of New York. It is situated in the midst of the Highlands, and is strongly fortified by nature as well as art. The principal fort is situated on a point of land formed by a sudden bend of the River, and commands it, for a considerable distance, above and below. Fort Putnam is situated a little further back, on an eminence which overlooks the other Fort, and commands a great extent of the River. On the opposite side of the River, the ruins of old Fort Constitution, with some barracks going to decay. This Fortress is called the Gibraltar of America, as, by reason of the rocky ridges rising one behind another, it is incapable of being invested by less than 20,000 men. It was taken by the British, and afterwards re-taken by storm, in a very gallant manner, by General Wayne. Benedict Arnold, to whom the important charge of this fort was committed, designed to have surrendered it up to the British; but Providence disappointed the treasonable design by the most simple means: Major André, a most accomplished and gallant Officer, was taken, tried and executed as a spy, and Arnold escaped. Thus the British exchanged one of their best Officers for one of the worst Men in the American Army. Morse.

at a vast height above the Hudson, overlooked much of the Highlands,* and still more of the majestic river, which here deviates from its usual direct course from north to south, and in no place more so than at West Point, washing two sides of the triangle, so that a wind fair for approaching it, is a-head when passing it, consequently no enemy's vessel could escape destruction, if hardy enough to attempt the passage. The view from our present situation

* Highlands, a mountainous tract of country on the banks of the Hudson River, between forty and sixty miles North of New York. The passage on the River through these Highlands, for the distance of about eighteen miles, is grand and romantic in a high degree. The opening seems to have been formed on purpose for the passage of this noble River. In these Highlands are situated the important and famous Fortresses of West-Point, Fort Montgomery and Stoney-Point. The most noted Peaks are, as you ascend the River, Thunder Hill, St. Anthony's Nose, Sugar Loaf, Butter Hill, and Break Neck Hill. After passing the two last, the Country opens delightfully, and presents to the eye the pleasant villages of New Windsor and Newburgh. These mountains abound with iron ore. Morse.

The passage through the Highlands, which is sixteen or eighteen miles, affords a wild romantic scene. In this narrow pass, on each side of which the mountains tower to a great height, the wind, if there be any, is collected and compressed, and blows continually as through a bellows; vessels in passing through it are often obliged to lower their sails. The bed of the River, which is deep and smooth to an astonishing distance through a rocky hilly country, and even through ridges of some of the highest mountains in the United States, must, undoubtedly, have been produced by some mighty convulsion in nature.

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