It has been claimed by some writers that he proposed and was rejected, but it is doubtful whether he ever was serious in his attentions.  At least there is no evidence that he ever “told his love,” and she finally married Col.  Roger Morris, one of Washington’s associates on Braddock’s staff.  The best part of residential Yonkers lies to the northward, beautifully embowered in trees as seen from the Hudson.  A line of electric street cars run north along Warburton Avenue.  The street known as Broadway, is a continuation of Broadway, New York.  Many of the river towns still keep this name, probably prophetic as a part of the great Broadway which may extend some day from the Battery to Peekskill.

Almost opposite Yonkers a ravine or sort of step-ladder cleft, now known as Alpine Gorge, reaches up the precipitous sides of the Palisades.  The landing here was formerly called Closter’s, from which a road zigzags to the top of the cliff and thence to Closter Village.  Here Lord Grey disembarked in October, 1778, and crossed to Hackensack Valley, “surprising and massacring Col.  Bayler’s patriots, despite their surrender and calls for mercy.”

Indian Head (510 feet) about two miles north of Alpine Gorge, is the highest point of the Palisades.

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  Eve o’er our path is stealing fast;
  Yon quivering splendors are the last;
  His latest glories fringe the height
  Behind us with their golden light.

  Robert C. Sands.

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=Yonkers to West Point=

Passing Glenwood, now a suburban station of Yonkers, conspicuous from the Colgate mansion near the river bank, built by a descendant of the English Colgates who were familiar friends of William Pitt, and leaders of the Liberal Club in Kent, England, and “Greystone,” once the country residence of the late Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York, and presidential candidate in 1876, we come to

=Hastings=, where a party of Hessians during the Revolutionary struggle were surprised and cut to pieces by troops under Colonel Sheldon.  It was here also that Lord Cornwallis embarked for Fort Lee after the capture of Fort Washington, and here in 1850 Garibaldi, the liberator of Italy, whose centennial was observed July 4, 1907, frequently came to spend the Sabbath and visit friends when he was living at Staten Island.  Although there is apparently little to interest in the village, there are many beautiful residences in the immediate neighborhood, and the Old Post road for two miles to the northward furnishes a beautiful walk or driveway, well shaded by old locust trees.  The tract of country from Spuyten Duyvil to Hastings was called by the Indians Kekesick and reached east as far as the Bronx River.