> falling from a cliff on an eminence to the northward, known, in

consequence, as Breakneck Hill. These, with Anthony's Nose, are the

principal points of interest in the lovely and impressive panorama that

unfolds before the view as the boats fly onward.



Concerning the last-named elevation, the aquiline promontory that abuts

on the Hudson opposite Dunderberg, it takes title from no resemblance to

the human feature, but is so named because Anthony Van Corlaer, the

trumpeter, who afterwards left a reason for calling the upper boundary of

Manhattan Island Spuyten Duyvil Creek, killed the first sturgeon ever

eaten at the foot of this mountain. It happened in this wise: By

assiduous devotion to keg and flagon Anthony had begotten a nose that was

the wonder and admiration of all who knew it, for its size was

prodigious; in color it rivalled the carbuncle, and it shone like

polished copper. As Anthony was lounging over the quarter of Peter

Stuyvesant's galley one summer morning this nose caught a ray from the

sun and reflected it hissing into the water, where it killed a sturgeon

that was rising beside the vessel. The fish was pulled aboard, eaten, and

declared good, though the singed place savored of brimstone, and in

commemoration of the event Stuyvesant dubbed the mountain that rose above

his vessel Anthony's Nose.