on.

[Illustration: Peekskill Landing--About 1815]

Close to Dunderberg Mt. the river takes a sharp turn to the left, and
just beyond the mountain can be seen Iona Island (near the west bank),
now occupied by the U.S. Government as a naval arsenal and supply depot.
Between the island and the eastern shore the river is so narrow that
this stretch is spoken of by boatmen as "The Race." A short distance
farther on the west bank is Bear Mt. Park, originally the gift of Mrs.
E. H. Harriman, which has been set aside by the Interstate Palisade Park
Commissioners as a vacation resort for the poor. Our train presently
passes by tunnel under the mountain known as "Anthony's Nose" (900 ft.),
so named, according to Diedrich Knickerbocker, from the "refulgent
nose" of Anthony van Corlear, Peter Stuyvesant's trumpeter. Across the
river is visible the mouth of Poplopen creek, on the north side, Ft.
Clinton.

These two forts were involved in the important maneuvers of 1777,
when the British, under Sir Henry Clinton, executed a brilliant
enterprise northward up the Hudson; they broke through the chains
which the Americans had stretched across the river in the hope of
checking the advance of British warships, captured Ft. Clinton
and Ft. Montgomery and destroyed the fleets which the Americans
had been forming on the river.

Three M. farther (on the right) is Sugar Loaf Mt. (765 ft.), noteworthy
as the place from which Benedict Arnold, whose headquarters were in the
Beverley Robinson House, near the south base of the mountain, made his
escape to the British man-of-war "Vulture" (1780) after receiving news
of Andr['e]'s capture. On the west shore near Highland Falls stands the
residence of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, standing somewhat back from
the river and partly hidden by trees.

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) was born in Hartford, Conn., a
son of Junius S. Morgan, who was a partner of George Peabody and
the founder of the house of J. S. Morgan & Co. in London. After
his university training at G[:o]ttingen, he began his career in the
financial world, and by 1895, as the head of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
was the greatest American financier. His banking house became one
of the most powerful in the world, carrying through the formation
of the U.S. Steel Corporation, harmonizing the coal and railway
interests of Pennsylvania, purchasing the Leyland line of
Atlantic s