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

flow in its waters at different periods ; and was

early made the theme of Indian story and tradition.

garded it

They re

with a species of superstitious veneration, and although

it

abounded

in a

variety of fish, they,

at

the early settlement,

them, believing they were superior beings and there the Great Spirit. placed by refused

to

About

eat

thirty miles

from Brooklyn and midway between the

north and south sides of the island, is a hill known as Marietta, a corruption of the original name, which was Manitou, or the hill of the Great Spirit. The tradition is, that many ages since,

the aborigines residing in those parts suffered extremely from the want of water. Under their suffering they offered up

That in reply to their prayers to the Great Spirit for relief. supplications, the Great Spirit directed their chieftain should air, and on the spot where it fell they shpuld dig, and would assuredly discover the element they so much desired. They pursued the direction, dug, and found