Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-07-29
ABOUT JUDGEs,sCAyE.

which operation may be regretted here
after; having passed quite beyond all this
work of demolition, shall I say yandalisms
(Anciently men built pyramids of stone,
but NATURES own work is now torn down
for us to trample en.) missing about it as
we follow the highway with a brook below
on our right, we see new stone bridge
and the ample Town house In spacious
and fair grounds beyond us.
We have made several inquiries already and
come right 80 far from German cottager
across the way, learn that the road to our
left, lust then entering the woods followed
about a half mile will bring us to the
Judges Cave. We pass small house and
barn ard find the road grows narrow and
in poor condition for wheels, but good
enough for pedestrians used to climbing
gradual accents. But there was no guide
post anywhere, and we had to follow our
wits and not diverge on uncertain blind
wood roads, It is quite ride from Fair
Haven to Westvil1e. The breadth of the
future city, and good walk beside to this
particular road which did not deceive us.
have taken pains to say when we found
it, for some years ago, some friends and
myself vainly sought the Cave by another,
and more blind path up the southwestern
slopes The path got lost, and the ladies
could not 60 up through the increasing
tangle of brush and luxuriant under
growth; we returned that day tired and
disappointed.
Only recently, having seen some of Mr..
Homan's photos thereof, my interest was
renewed, and my daughter and two of her
ride and the ramble. Up through the
young woods we go and at length come
where lesser growth allows US to look
out over it far to north and east.
Up and up and everhigher we have been
rising, and are now nearing the main up
per surface of the West Rocks extensive
formation, and presently looms up beyond
and above us the very thing we came to
see. I have told the girls meantime a
short story about Charles the First, Crom-
well, the regicides and Charles the Second.
Their young minds do not yet grasp the
great turning points in history; in fact,
only now and then is there some older
mind that does or that cares.
There was quite patch of blue berries
just here, and while the young folks are
eagerly enjoying the nice ripe fruit, bend
ing the low bushes with their clustering
weight and all below those shelving rocks
| beyond them, have passed on without
| much delay, and am upon that solid, al
| most barren slope, and am examining {
very remarkable cluster of great stones.
! like rocks. They have sort of fascina
ton for me, especially if peculiar and pic
turesque. These were certainly so, and tt
! an art lover of rocks per SCI, present sew
eral highly interesting studies, SO much sc
| that I was soon at work with pencil on {
large drawing pad, outli ming their shapes
and main features.
How differently people tell you abou
places and natural objects of special in
terest. Like the court examining wit
nesses it sometimes takes a good many
to give an accurate description Of an even
| or scene. I cannot here speak as a geol
ogist, but rather as an artist. Will yor
| look on while I make and explain my
| sketchess We are hundred feet north o.
| said group of rocks, looking northerly a
| small tree beyond them for line o.
| sight On the left there is that lone sen
| tinel, on the right the group of falle1
| ones. Their sunmits appear on level
but the left hand stone seems taller, be
cause he is really, and stands on lowel
| footing. He has a sheer face toward hi
comrades. It is in the main very straigh
up and down, also back and forth on hori
zonta1 lines. Its outward east edge curve
round, and draws in towards the foot
greatest diameter east and west, say eigh
feet; height probably eighteen.
The girls have enjoyed enough berrie
for the present and are now playing hid
and seek around and among these rocks
well adapted for such game! AS Bryan
says in the Forest hymn, "Lo, all grow oil
and die; but gee again, how on the falter
| ing footsteps of decay youth presses, eve
| gay and beautiful, youth in all its beauti
full forms" Their 1.-THE figures and Igh
summer dresses by contrast enliven up tn
reddish gray or lichened rock masses
Only colors on canvas could give us tn
| picture.
North of this seeming sentinel rock ar
considerable horizontal fragments OF
which they stand, and yet that tallest girl
slender and graceful, all of five feet high
shows twice her height still needed abov
| her summer hat to equal the height of thi
| rock.
| Probably a ground line of twenty o.
| more feet starting some feet westward
| from the sentinel rock would give us tn
under reach of these westward masses
There is space for dozen or two of peopl
| to stand between the gredadin and his re
clining comrades. Their eastward line
slope away from vertical at angle of 81
degrees, also very great, but slantint
westward. Their great tops round owe
and fall away out of sight among som
near sumach bushes. Of singular frac
ture, at our standpoint we cannot tell wha
some of those shadows mean.
Taking an eastward position, I get
very different sketch; it helps me to un
derstand things, but is not SO interesting
as the one from the south side, at suficien
yet the same general outlines conform
to what has been said. On our right tina
sentinel fellow, one of the Old Guard
suppose he has stood for ages just wher
he is in silent contemplation Of those fel
lows-shattered companions. I think tn
regicides found them as they are and wha
will soon be indicated, a singular hidin
place indeed! There is sort of shelf o.
the lone rocks south side and two or thre
persons might climb up by mutual bel
and crowd together standing in that rec
tangular uncanopied niche. The girl
have eaten more berries and are hoverin
around again and I get their outlines one
more-on the horizontal rocks north of a.
these greater ones-through the space be
tween them.
Those westward masses have kind Q
high base on the southwest, a dark scar
! lies on it's inner edge under the Superio
rock. Then another dark shadow at 1t
further end rises and curves over like
quadrant's edge, ascending from west
east. This is great vertical fracture
the lower one vertical and horizontal. Nc
until had walked through these fssure
did fairly understand them. To get til
position of things fairly before my reade1
let me suppose by way of illustration
have in hand large loaf of bread, bake
in a round pan, and of greater diamett
than height. 1t is higher on one sid
Slice off that side, quarter of the who
and stand it by itself. Divide the who
larger section at right angles to the fir
cut, giving more to the south than to tt
north part. Sub divide the south one t
: inverting the knife blade and running i
edge up from below and then to left, for,
that smaller lower piece out and make 8
open space or tunnel between it and IL
top one, but keep the upper one on it. S
the northern section at relative distanc
and you have two great assures, joinin
perhaps, at right angle, the one cover,
and the other open. This is simple but
hope fairly descriptive ILLUSTRATION
missing something about small
and broken slices, low, lying north of a,
There assures, however, are not exact
straight. They are more or less rous
and irregular, and probably followed ms
l ural veins in the whole mass before it ev
split adart, whether by conclusion, dro
/ ping out of an iceberg on to that sol
mass below, whether by action of perc
lating water and frost, or by lightnin
quite as likely the first as the Jast. I a