4 Geology, &c. of the Connecticut. 
rival and departure of vessels. Indeed, the beauty of the 
prospect from this spot is much greater than one wo d 
suppose possible from such a mere hillock. The top 
of the eminence has a circular redoubt upon it, which 
was constructed by the inhabitants of New-Haven during 
the Revolutionary war, and repaired during the late 
war with Great-Britain. The ditch is dug in solid 
greenstone ; but fortunately not being wanted, it is now 
abandoned. and has become the resort of the flocks that 
graze in the field; the magazine serving as a place of shel- 
ter from the storm.* 
Eminence in West-Haven.—(Now Orange.) 
Near the western line of this town, one or two miles south 
of the turnpike from New-Haven to Milford, is an elevated 
swell of land, which commands an extensive and delightful 
prospect. When I visited it, a thick fog was just breaking 
away and developing one object after another, till, at length, 
the coast of Connecticut from East-Ha to Stratford, and 
not less than fifty or sixty miles of the coast of Long Island 
became visible, as well as the villages of Milford and North- 
Milford ; and just rising over the trees, appeared the spires 
of New-Haven. now not any specific appellation for 
this commanding plateau. 
Prospect from Middletown, Upper Houses. 
Atthe north end of the village thus denominated, a few 
rods from the public house, is a hill, from whose summit 
is obtained a fine view of the basin in which Middletown is 
placed, with the city and the river. Here too I had the 
pleasure, on one occasion, of seeing the various objects of 
this landscape, artificial and natural, partially covered by a 
; the spires of Middletown and the more elevated trees 
and hills appearing above it, and reminding me of the ante- 
diluvian world half buried in the deluge. 
* Attached to the red conglomerate at the foot of this hill, I found the 
beautiful Borrera chrysophthalma Ach: And this is the only place in which 
J have rad seen it in New-England, except upon the puddingstone of Rox- 
