The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-02
LONG ISLAND IN SUMNER.

ATTRACTIVE RESORTS TO SUIT ALL TASTES
AND AGEs-eEAUrITUL, BUT BADLY
NAMED BY THE STUPID PUBITANs.
We can only estimate the beauty and grandeur
OF American scenery by comparing It with that
OF other countries. At present there
tain standards which are all foreign. The nov
eist pictures q lake fair Como Killarney
Catrine, but seldom turns for imagery Moose
head or George Whcn an American lako In de-
scribed 1t is compared with Leman or Windermcro;
but s Is seldom that the description Of European
lake Is made VIVID TO the untrsveed American by a
comparison with Greenwood or Cayuga Ono reason
OF this Is that rsproaoh still nolds good that the
travelled American more familiar with foreign
than With his In seeking the classical
rivers islands aud lakes Of Europe. grauyng his
longing Tor the enjoyment OF their associations under
tho immediate influence OF tho genus loci, he turns
his back upon the endless variety oil American
cry, ana Ia aiving himself up 10 the glamour thrown
by Foreigners over the places famous history
aud song he weaves counter spell, although Tue
material Is here Tor u web Of glorious beauty.
uSlSyIIIxG NAMEs
In the OF Long Island there Is much 10 forgive.
Its very name Is unfortunate The islano, the
stranger argues tina. can inspire It's nhabt with
tame and barren waste. The objection, 20 those
qua,ntsd with tue mysterious motives OF the men 10
amounts " notpinE Did thev ginaiiy christon
the placsi and charming Greenwood "Long Pondf"
The kteriiity ~ romarkaplc In LOug
Island, where the names are well worthy OF being
studied They Indicate, IN the first place. the Pun.
Within space OF anoa. nisy miles oao Can Visit
Babylon, Jerusalem aud Bethpage, pass north 10
Jericho, thence westward by way Of 81 and
jams 10 Mount Sinai, and by Hsrod's Point TO
second Jorcno. Tie islanders have been less for
tunats Ia their originality. there are AZ least three
Rocky Points on the northern shore To the west OF
shelter Island Fsrmin Neck craning
toward Port Paradise and is kept In countsnancc by
Little Hog Neck. Ram Head Is tho most sastcriy
IL would be dicuu 70 discover anything other cupho
nous or appropriate In the many woodcd
neadIands that jut into the sound. From Great
Neck, Cow Neck Aod Cow Bay ~ Duck Ponl and Duck
Pond Point the settlers have displayed no little In
gcnuity selecting suggestive OF nothing but
genius utterly barren OF invention. As II fascinated
with the Deauiy OF such name as Great Neck u IL
sgain applied ". promontory ~ Huntington bay,
aud skirtins The coAs, We pass OAK Neck, Lloyd's
Neck, Lttlo Neck, Eaton's Neck anu Cranes Neck
To make matters wotss tue settlers have tanipored
with or entirely displaced the quaint expressive
names thsir aboIis nai predecessors Long Island
Metowax or SewanBaeka Poqualuck WIS iocg
called oyster Ponds until happy thought
suggested pUv was ssaasSs s Ca a a souy
and then TO Mount sinai These changes lead one TO
appreciate the language OF M. Nathaniel ). Prime,
when, In speaking OF KonKonkona, he says:-'I Is
10 DO hoped that the Unsuitable rnge for
may never succeed robbing this beautiful sheet vi
water OF its aboriginal appcia,ion How tame is
Forest Lake. Or spy o.ner Eugllsu term compared
with the sonorous word, RonkoDkomar Esto per-
pefad"
Another reason Why Long Isiabd mas been avoided
by BON settlers aud temporary residents Is to DO
found Ia the tact that historians have spoken slight
inely Of It's fcrtty and prsductveness. one writer
speaks OF the island generally as vast barren plain
second says "bere Is soii' upon the great pine
plans anc, again. that 'vast portions OF the island
are OF no earthly value but tor tho wood they pro-
duce" Statements on the opposite ssde more or less
interested, might be multiplied but wusne TO obser
vaton aiono " W remarkable thai wherever asricui-
tural experiments have been made they appear 10 be
| succe6siul. Great tracts OF land still un
broken, hut the traveller IRON hicksviiie cast
ward 10 Manor, and 50 on past Greenport, tho
railway terminus on the north ORIENT Point, will
una not only that abundant vegetation covers the
absence OF SOIL but that uiage IN rewarded ny results
altogether Inconsistent with Darrcnncss and stcriiity.
Not TO insist too strongly upon the agricultural advsn
tagcs oil Long Island tue rolling landscape covered
win rich dress oil green makes ~ exceedingly at
tractive to the painting refugee IRON tho CITY, whose
dream OF immediate happiness ~ realized by being
| turned loose IN the woods Two hundred aud eight