His length is eight feet from fin to fin, and seven feet three inches from stem to stern. He is spotted under the fore fins like a leopard, and discovered amazing swiftness after being struck by the harpoon. He had been seen among the rocks in the neighborhood of New Rochelle, but was not known till just before his capture to be a turtle. What a noble repast would this prove to the Blow-bladder street fraternity in London, for he is found to be upwards of 800 cwt."°

In the vicinity of New Rochelle the waters of the Sound, or "Manunketesuck" are studded with numerous islands, which add much to the beauty of the surrounding scenery. The opposite shore of Long Island, also, forms another charming addition to the landscape -- sprinkled as it is, in all directions, by neat farm houses and villages.

"The Sound! Oh! how many delightful reminiscences does the name bring to our recollection. The Sound ! with its white sand banks, and its wooded shores, its far broad bosom covered with fleets of sails, scudding along in the swift breeze in the open day, and its dark waves rolling and sweeping in whole streams of phosphorescent fire from their plunging bows, as they dash through it in the darkness of midnight. The Sound ! redolent with military story. The Sound ! overflowing with supernatural legend and antiquated history." "Are there not the ' Brothers,' unnatural that they are, who, living centuries together, never to one another have as yet spoken a kindly word, and the great savage ' Executioners,' and ' Throgs,' and ' Sands,' and ' Etons,' all throwing hospitable lights from their high beacon towers, far forward, to guide the wandering mariner ; and the 'Devil's Stepping Stones,' oe'r which he bounded when driven from Connecticut ; and the great rocks, too, inside of Flushing Bay, on which he descended, shivering them from top to bottom as he 1 fell.