Among all the beaver skins I have seen, no more than one was of a different color, and that was white, the outer-wind hairs were golden yellow. The skin was shipped on board the Princess with Director Kieft, which was lost at sea.""

The deep waters of Lake Waccabuck afford vast quantities of fish, as pickerel, large perch, eels, &c. The two former are said to have been introduced here within a few years. The favorite haunts of the pickerel are the Cove and Raven's rock.

Upon the south ridge of Long Pond mountain (which rises abruptly from the northern shore of the lake,) is situated the cave of Sarah Bishop, the hermitess.

The Sarah Bishop Cave, Long Pond Mountain.

Amidst the savage landscape, bleak and bare, Stands the chill hermitage, in mountain rock, and air, Its haunts forsaken, and its feasts forgot,

A leaf strown, lonely, desolated cot ! -- Whites Selborne.

The hermitess is reported to have been a resident of Long Island at the period of the Revolution, where she saw the destruction of her paternal mansion, and suffered great cruelty at the hands of a British officer, which finally induced her to abandon society altogether, and seek an abode in the present cave. The following account of a visit to

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the hermitess, is taken from a newspaper printed in Poughkeepsie in 1804 :

" As you pass the southern and elevated ridge of the mountain, and begin to descend the southern steep, you meet with a perpendicular descent of a rock, in the front of which is this cave. At the foot of the rock is a gentle descent of rich and fertile ground, extending about ten rods, when it instantly forms a frightful precipice, descending half a mile to the pond called Long Pond.