This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...to the height of nearly one hundred and fifty feet. Each way from the gorge, northeast and southwest, the mountain rises still higher, and just below the gorge, or at its outlet, the river widens out, forming what has been familiarly 1 See J. H. Trumbull's Indian Names of Connecticut, p. 29. called "the Cove" for many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...to the height of nearly one hundred and fifty feet. Each way from the gorge, northeast and southwest, the mountain rises still higher, and just below the gorge, or at its outlet, the river widens out, forming what has been familiarly 1 See J. H. Trumbull's Indian Names of Connecticut, p. 29. called "the Cove" for many years, but what has been denominated the "fishing-place" ever since the settlement of the town, at the lower end of which is Goodyear's Island. The width of the gorge at the highest point of the rocks may be eighty feet, or a little more, and at the surface of the water half as great, the western side being in the whole length nearly bare, perpendicular rock, the eastern side rising more gradually and covered with trees and shrubs. From the gorge to the northeast the mountain rises gradually for some distance and then abruptly another one hundred and fifty feet, forming a kind of oblong haystack sort of a mountain, to be seen as a high point from many parts of the town, which height particularly is called Falls Mountain, although the name is applied in general to the mountain at the gorge. On this mountain, where it rises gradually towards the northeast, at a distance of about eighty rods from the gorge, is located Waraumaug's Monument--a rude pile of small field-stones, circular in form, of two and a half feet in diameter, cone-shaped, with a single stone standing upright at the top--all of it nearly six feet in height. Here Waraumaug was buried (of which fact there can scarcely be a doubt, since the Rev. Daniel Boardman, probably, attended his funeral, and at the least knew where he was buried), he having requested, as it is said, to be buried here, that he might look abroad upon the beautiful country of his people, and n...
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