He retired collected, and, as usual, giving up the ground only inch by inch ; and, though retiring, still presenting a front whenever attack threatened ; he kept close to the Sound to secure his flank on that side ; and, having reached Frog^s point, and the water becoming narrow, to be crossed by the Indians in bark canoes, easily to be made in a night, and the tide being out, and the rocks showing their heads, he availed himself of them, and stepping from one to another, effected his retreat to Long Island. He at first betook himself sullen and silent to Coram, in the middle of the island ; but it being in his nature not to remain idle long, and " rage superadded, soon roused him and ministered to him the means of revenge. He collected all the rocks in the island in heaps at Cold Spring, and throwing them in different directions, to different distances across the Sound in Connecticut, covered the surface of it with them as we now see it; and

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it has been repeated from the whites, the first settlers of the lands at Cold Spring', that the Indians to the last who remained, not only undertook to show the spot where he stood, but insisted ihey could still discern the print of his feet." " The fact of tradition (adds Judge Benson) among the Indians of Long Island, of a war between those of Connecticut and the evil spirit about the territory, and of his being worsted and retreating to the island, &c., I had from the late Mr. L' Hemmed ieii a native of the island. "a A projecting point of land on the neck still bears the name of iSatafi's toe.