This skin was shipped on board the Princess with Director Kieft, which was lost at sea."=^

The deep waters of Lake Wacabuck afford vast quantities of fish, as pickerel, large perch, eels, (fcc. 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 !

[White's Selborne.

" Van der Donek's Hist. New Netherlands.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 279

The herniitess 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 ihe present cave. The following account of a visit to the hermitess is taken from a newspaper printed at Poughkeepsie in 1804.

''Yesterday I went in company of two Captain Smiths of this town to the mountain to visit the hermitage. As you pass the southern and elevated ridge of the mountain, and begin to descend the southern sleep, 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. In the front of the rock on the north, where the cave is, and level with the ground, there appears a large frustum of the rock, of a double fathom in size, thrown out by some unkown convulsion of nature, and lying in front of the cavity from which it was rent, pajrtly enclosing the mouth and forming a cover.