It was in connection with this bloodless naval engagement that the panic broke out among the militia on Davenport's Neck, an account of whichis given in the history of New Rochclle. The Rev. Lewis J. Coutant,' then a boy often or twelve years, distinctly remeni" bered to have heard the echoes of the cannonade upon that sultry August morning, rolling and reverberating among the hills back of the town of New Rochelle. Mr. Peter Roosevelt, of Pelham, now in his ninety-second year, is understood to have witnessed the engagement from some convenient hill near the shore Hunter's Island, now the property of Mr. Iselin^ was, in the year 1800, owned by a gentleman named Henderson, a Scotchman and a surgeon in the British army. It has changed hands many times and is

for navigators well acquainted with the obstructions above and below tlie surface. It is related that some years ago one of the Le Counts, who lived upon the shore in New Korhelle, near the Telham line, and hail been familiar « ith the navigation of tlie Sound in tliat vicinity from liis youth, took a party of friends out for a siil. The day was fine, the wind fair, and the passengers were delighted until the boat, under full sail, ran pluniii jipon a large flat rock about a foot under water, near the mouth of Echo Bay. As the tide was falling, it became evident that their sail for the day Wtis over. " Captain," wa« the indignant I'cuionstrance of the party, " I thought you knew every rock in this Sound." " I do," replied Cuptain L. C, "and this here is one of the woi"st."