Litchfield enquirer., 1881-09-22
Goshen, No. 511.

4 spent last week at Stony Creek, and " Will
 Sgive your readers d short account of what 1
 ssaw. 1 think it has been established thatI
 4 pot holes" found in elevated positions. were
 made in the former ages when this part of the
 scountry, was covered with glaciers that wereI
 3continually melting and forming streams thatI sfor ages kept stones whirng around, and II
 sdaslred to see if could find any glacial marks Issimiar to those of Berkshire and Litchfeld
 acouutes on tLe rocks which form the TbimbleI
 SIsands in the Sound opposite to the towns off
 ABranford and Guilford. There are said to bel
 s395 of these Islands, but there are really only|
 ESQ or 40 of them, the others being simply rocks
 srising above the water. The place to put up
 7is at the Flying Point House kept by Mr.
 sNorthrop, Stony Creek. There is no end to
 athe boats that will take your readers to thesei
 ADeautful islands. There are 13 houses on
 sMoney Island. and the first thing l saw at theI
 SNorthwest end where we landed was several
 3snce glacial scratches where the earth had beenI aremoved to put on a garden. A lady at oneI aof the houses said she knew about the marks, abut had heard they were the marks made byE aCapt. Kidds wheelbarrow. This pirate lande.. led on this island, and people have dug great: Ideal to find where he buried his gold. At PotI Island near Money Island is Kidds' HarborI Awhere he hid his ship. The Island takes ltsE name from the Pot Hole called Capt. Kidd st aPunch Bowl, which is oval, four feet long,E 1.-two feet wide and one foot deep. and the sides: Hare perfectly smooth. On the northeast partI sof Smiths Island is one three feet across and Height feet deep. On the west part of this is sland found large horn-blend boulder whichE
 \ sprobably came from Litchield County. OnE
 sthe northeast part of Narrow Island is potE 9hole three feet across, and very smooth. Mrl
 aauli, the owner, cleared it out and found itt aaight feet deep, and he found the stone which, 5had revoved in it, all worn. He wants to selli
 sthe next island, called the outer Narrowt
 alsland, on which is house and well, forE 4$350. On the rocks close blythe Stony PonlE sdepot are many glacial marks, and as 1 wasE Sleaving l learned. that it was famous placeE sfor them near the railroad cast of the depot, ! 3Prof. Dana told me that iIe was satisfied theE glaciers extended from Berkshire Go. to Longk Island, for he had found on that Island rocksE Sthat came from this way. One day was one 1 aof company who went off trying to catch at ; shark and we caught one, but what time wei lhad before we could get him into the boat. E { and he measured four feet three inches and aE half. While was gone Idid not See any suchE al lu hor I lv mosquitoes, and heard one more. < Saturn comes up beautifully in the eastE aevery evening, and is followed little befcreE ] nine by bright Jupiter, then Mars follows, andE at little before three Venus shows herself, andt ashe has now reached the Lion At 8 o'clocks anext Sunday evening she will be less than as
 quarter of degree from Regulus the bryhtesls star in the Lion, but they wili,be on the wrongE aside of the world, and we must wait about sixE ahours for them to rise, very early in the morn-E sng 1 shall look before and after SundayE 5evening. ARRIVED. At Mir. Stoddard's, Mir. and Mrs. s Henry Stoddard of Newburyport; at Mir sGaray's, MT. and Mrs. Miles and Miss Smith E lat Dea. Smiths, Mr. and Mrs. Geo Hall, off Philadelphia. -....4 .- Il wishl could have known that PenE sDragon was at the Temperance meeting inE Lakeville, wish to see how he looks. Mrs. Harriett Cook, whose death wasE dnoticed last week gave in her will to her sis. ! Jter Miss Elizabeth Cook her Phoenix bankE stock. to Rev David Fully of Oswego $lOOO,f f 3'o Mrs. De Wolf her grand daughter, herE soank stock. mortgages and other personals aproperty in the State of New York, to theE iSunday School at our Congregational church, aS3OO, and the remainder of her property toI sJJJames c. Cook of Albany. \ Il was in the South part of the State lastl ssMonday evening, and did not see the remark liable aurora but it was seen here, and was de |
 ascribed as wonderful. a Some of our people while at church yes-!
 aterday (sunday,) heard two explosions hkeI sacannon. sl A few days ago man from Sandlsfield,I
 4Mass, with load of cheese for Lucas audE dAllyn. our eLterprising cheese merchants, | Iaovertoek me, and after some conversation saasked me if was not H. N. the newspaperI s8correspondent. When he told why he thought ssso, learned that he had never seen me, but She took one of our County papers, and be dhad seen me stop to look at a rock. I '7s5 IN.