and, as usual, gave up the ground only inch by inch ; and though retiring, still presenting a front whenever attack lected,

He kept close to the sound to secure his flank from attack on that side ; and having reached the point, and the water becoming narrow, and the tide running out, and the rocks showing their heads, he availed himself of them, and stepping from one to the other effected his retreat to Long Island. He threatened.

at first betook himself, silent and sullen, to

Coram, in the middle of the island ; but it being in his nature not to remain idle long,

and rage being 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."

This

tradition

was given to the first settlers at Cold Spring,

and the last Indians

who remained there not only undertook to

show the spot where his majesty stood, but insisted that they could still discern the prints of his feet.

A projecting point of

land on the neck is still called Satan's Toe.

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

Among the natural curiosities of Long Island lake, lying upon the

boundary

is

Ronconcoa

line which divides the four towns

of Smithtown, Setauket, Islip, and Patchogue. This lake is of and for a time was to be unfathomable. depth great supposed long It has an ebb and