Le New York et Albany Post Road, de Kings Bridge à 'le ferry à Crawlier, vis-à Albany,' d'être un compte d'une balade à pied effectuées à quelques kilomètres d'articles divers reprises entre mai et novembre, mille neuf cent cinq . petite vieille église hollandaise est probablement la plus ancienne église 21-je ? TARRYTOWN. édifice maintenant dans l'État. Il a été construit en 1699 par Fred-erick Philipse. Irving affirme d'elle : l'église de cette situation séquestré semble toujours en ont fait un lieu de prédilection des esprits. oftroubled Il se dresse sur une colline entourée par les treesand nobles elms, parmi lesquels son wh décent

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The New York and Albany post road, from Kings Bridge to "the ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany, " being an account of a jaunt on foot made at sundry convenient times between May and November, nineteen hundred and five . little old Dutch church is believed to be the oldest church 21 i ? TARRYTOWN. edifice now standing in the State. It was built in 1699 by Fred-erick Philipse. Irving says of it: The sequestered situation ofthis church seems always to have made it a favorite haunt oftroubled spirits. It stands on a knoll surrounded by locust treesand lofty elms, from among which its decent whitewashed wallsshine modestly forth like Christian purity beaming through theshades of retirement. To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeamsseem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there, at least, thedead might rest in peace, and there Irving himself rests in peacewith a plain white stone at his head which modestly tells that WASHINGTON SON OF WILLIAM AND SARAH S. IRVING DIED NOV. 28, 1859 AGED 76 YEARS, 7 MO. AND 25 DAYS North of the church and on both sides of the Post Road arethe remains of the one-time Beekman forest, whose thicketsonce served the deer for a cover. So long ago as 1705 it was. »»««« L 1-f..-iWC^^^!--t>=!^>-- OItt Dttffth. dxuTclvTa.rvii/*w«.- 76*fl- ST. MARYS CHURCH. necessary 1 o enact game laws for the protedlion of these animals, which were even then in a fair way to being exterminated. The six miles to Ossining are largely made up of handsomeestates lining both sides of the road. Here and there nature stilllitters the earth with weeds and bushes, or the farmer tends hiscrops, leaving a fringe of wild things to border his domains, butas a general thing such inelegancies are suppressed, .and the road-side is ordered with the same precision as are the lands on theother side of the wall. Those pleasant little friendships with un-kempt nature are not so frequent as we find them further on.However, while there is little delight in

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