Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-20
THE LAST momAUaurN.
Legends of the Past-The Red Men
 of QuInnipiacks-Ente Remi-

I sent you some time since, from the lips of the t'Old Residential" the legend of Lonotononket, also "reminiscences of Fort Wooster, on Beacon Hill.
 By appointment I met my friend of Lonotononket one fine morning last week OH the ramparts of old Wooster, for g talk and an airing.
 The ramble of to-day, he remarked, is the one that gives me more strength and spirit than any of my other weekly walks.
 As rise this hill from the village feel the air becomes lighter, brighter, more ex- hilarating, and as I walk along this ridge | the ozone of the Sound permeates my en- tire system. The change is so radical I | find it quite unnecessary to make long | journeys for change of air, risking life | and limb, spending quantities of money I for what can be obtained free within ten | minutes walk of our own door.
 Scrambling down the ramparts of the fort we proceeded in sontherly route along the crest of hills back of Messrs Benedict, Upson and Fabrique, giving us delightful view of village and valley on the left, the harbor and city on the right, until we came to clearing in the midst of the forest on the hill just back of the
 
 was an old Indian apple orchard, where in my youth scores of bushels of apples went to waste; but just beyond, on the brow of this hill was phenomenon that Professor Sheppard considered the most picturesque and unique natural curiosity in New En- gland.
 It was known to the neighbors as ''The Trinity" or 'tBig Stun Hill"
 Just on the brow of what was evidently koi, vu1o tha nf Island sound dashed against it's base, but now by the action of the elements through l eons of time worn down to & hill of say | two hundred and fifty feet in height, stood l three nearly round red sandstone boulders weighing from thirty to thirty-ive tons each, and so near the apex that had any | one of them moved foot they would have l gone laundering down into the valley be- | low. They rested upon bare trap forina- l ton within twenty five feet of each other and formed right angle triangle. | Not the least of the wonder was that each stone had 8 hollow on the top, like the impress that would be made if person | were to sit down upon an impressionable mass of clay, or like the dug-out seats of the chairs used by our forefathers and found to-day in old attics.
 | The indentations were so deep that the water would remain after rain, and was I Geologists had theory that these rocks
 were relics of an earlier world, and com | ing down in some glacier or iceberg melted 1 out and settled in this precarious resting place.
 The last Momogwin of the Quinnipiacks
 attributed these boulders to the caprice of
 the Seven League Giant, whose grave seen
 far to the north is known to-day as the
 sleeping giant
 Come sit thee down and while we are
 breathing in this mountain air will give
 you Mog's story. "We boys had rushed
 out of school one afternoon, books in
 hand, to visit our traps and had reached
 this hill, when climbing up one of the
 boulders by fence rail ladder we sat talk
 ing in the surroundings when we espied
 old Mog trudging up the hill with basket
 wood on his shoulders. So ws called out:
 Mog, tell Us who put these stones here?
 He came to us and seeing our books said
 "What him lie say about stories" He had
 a most profound disgust for books and
 records, saying they were all "Him lies,
 lies, Ges."
 The books say nothing about them, tell } us what you Indians know and we will give you @ whole handful of horse tails for ; your snares.
 This was policy for we had missed some of our hair snares and gave Mog credit for l StedlluS Lu0u HIS OWu pdTlflOS0 pOuuQs | in Cove woods.
 So he told us that the seven league chi. ! wishing place to sit when he came down ' l ito salt' from his home in the north (the | depressions in the Green mountain range being where his fe. t broke through the e crust of his trals) brought with him these boulders one for himself and one for each of his favorite squaws, or, as the boys ot
 to-day would say, for his two best girls. &Lof fna thaf i,,f ft.,i,. !: ditions go back to giants, it is not fair tt | conclude that they really did exist in al ! early world upon our ridiculing his story ! and saying that a.giant seven leagues long l l would find these stones too small to si r. l upon, he became very angry, called u "him lie fool;" that these stones wher brought here were mountains, that ths 5 heat and cold, rain and wind had wor1 ; | them down to their present size. White ! man laugh at Indian God, Indian laugh a
 white man God. White man God squav T T God. Men catch him hang him up or U pole But the Indians God was all power e full; the sun was his father, the earth hi mother; he held the iceberg and glacier to the sun, and the mist and rain descend T ing peopled the earth with animal and veg A etable life.
 I them with the mountains, his voice was tn
 thunder, He gathered up the whirlwind in hi I hand and hurled them at his enemies, trimmed l his war scalp with the stars and called down Il h.
 lightning to fire his pipe He eat up a full grow moon every month ana when ne 1 aWoke rom hi
 mighty broom and sweep the whteman VI ith hi l. cities and towns, factories and farms back int
 the wild ocean, resow the land with his owl
 Indians and have it all his own way as Of yore l, As the old Indian stood there all aglow with ex s- very glad we we're well out of his reach on tn d l top of the rock and fancied him another Home or Oscian narrati1g the exploits of his illustriou We were much relieved when the old Indial # strode away and frightened to think what thu y l old sleeping giant might do if he should awak d | from his slumber in wrath and sweep us all ava ', U with his forest broom in one grand wirlwind o u cities and towns into the ocean.
 a Andsdreadfully shocked at his sacrilegious tai e so scuttled home as fast as we could, our mothe T consoling us with the remark that Mog was 7 poor, ignorant pagan, who could not be expecte {. to nave Christian understanding. e e But still it W as years before we could look ur ', on the sleeping Giant spread out with his colos n n sal proportions along the northern horizon wit k any degree of chimes and placdity: 2 on the hill when our dogs commenced comm to dig at = l met with some obstacle, so we ran home for ho 10 | and shovels. In digging we brought out an ax f head. The blade, about ten inches round, i shape similar to the batte-axes to be seen at tn .' Tower of London, except that the head was \, bound knob (not pointed), would weigh fror 2: twelve to fifteen pounds Also what might hay q size, the hole for the handle about three inche r They were so rusty and mixed with the cart IL that adhered to them that they barely held the Q, l shape. We quite destroyed them before " u l really discovered what they were. It is gres T l misfortune to the world that the ignorant an J, careless the ones who usually discover thes ,n M l relics of other days
 n' have no doubt this ax and hoe was a greg
 curiosity, carrying one back to perhaps the day
 when the Norseman explored this coast.
 It was their custom Gas with explorers of or O. days) to put up signals on head lands along th
 coast, and " ho know but this hill was chose
 as signal station and the tools left under th
 boulder for future use, for they were very ul
 like any of the pictures of tools used by our Pi
 grim forefathers.
 Then again, they were much too ponderous ft
 the use of the Saxon race, since the days of thos
 ancient builders, Og. Cog. and Magog. ep They were so rusted that they fell apart thick scales, and as they were in a very dr
 pace, some five fe under the rock, may ha,
 been laying there since Eric the Red took
 outing along our coast.
 an told by a Norwegian gentleman that th
 axes and hoes of the times of the Morse Sc
 kings were of this character. The fate of thes cd | boulders is to pe regretted. neighbor wi,
 an eye more for utility than sentiment blaste ce and so to-day what should be of the wo
 ders of New England, is common place rd ! masonry.
 We boys were the innocent cause of a di nd l uurbance among our neighbors of the old for
 At tine there would come .'to salt memb- ch ! of different tribes who retained some of tt
 old emnity that fired them in the early days. ur ! Among others Knees and Paws ( Drr Pria