Egbert Benson) is asserted for this name, and tradition vouched as the authority." " It is said, that at a certain time, doubtless some years ago, the evil spirit set up a claim against the Indians, to Connecticut, as his peculiar domain j but they being in possession, determined, of course, to try to hold it. By Connecticut, the premises in question, is to be understood, the original Connecticut proper -- the territoiy between the oblong, our eastern boundary in that quarter, and the Sound." The surfaces of Connecticut and Long Island, were then the reverse cf what they are now. Long Island was covered with rocks, Connecticut was free from them. The Indians were fully sensible of v/hat they had to dread from such an adversary, and accordingly betook themselves to a course not unusual on occasions of great difficulty and danger ; they referred tlie case to tlie squav/s, the mothers of the tribes, who, it is said, recommended an offer to quit, on being allowed their betterments -- a Novanglican law term, devised to signify the dwelling and other erections, and comprehending girding the trees to disencumber the land of the wood, by a person entering without title, on land never before cultivated, known as T?eii.> or \\'ild land, &:c. ' No answer, as was to be expected, was given to this o.^'er; and the parties claiming to be entitled to the riglit of sovereign States, and there being no federal court to interpose between the.m, had recourse to the '" alternate means, of discussion between princes -- to arms." The parties foreseeing there would be war, were, as behooved them, prepared for it.