COMMERCE, NAVIGATION AND FISHERIES. 6$ 



first time in 1795 ; the latest is one in Cold Spring Harbor not yet com- 

 pleted, and a light-ship is to be placed on Cerberus Shoal off Gardiner's 

 Island. Long Island forms part of the Third Light-House District, which 

 extends from Gooseberry Point, Mass., to include Squan Inlet, New Jersey, 

 with its headquarters at I ompkinsville, Staten Island. The following is a 

 list of light-houses, 14 in number, now in actual operation within this 

 county, made up in the order of their establishment. I have the list here, 

 but omit its reading ; it will be found in a footnote.* 



I come now to the Fisheries of Suffolk County. References made 

 in the previous pages pyint out the facts that the early setrlers were from a 

 section of England largely engaged in fishing, and that they were attracted 

 to this island by the facilities it offered for commerce and for fishing. To 

 their experienced eyes it was as evident then as it is to their descendants 

 now, that a large, a wholesome, and a nutritious part of their subsistence 

 might be obtained from the waters that enclose and interlace the land in 

 loving embrace. Swimming and shell fish abounded and were easily taken 

 in quantities to supply their wants. Should other resources fail, should 

 nature frown upon their agriculture and the earth refuse its fruits, should 

 the wild game desert its haunts and the untended flocks of the air omit to 

 make thetr annual migrations, they yet had a sure reliance in the teeming 

 storehouse that always lay open to their industry. With hooks and rude 

 nets they came provided, and beds of fat oysters and succulent clams, of 

 meaty mussels and prodigious periwinkles, spread invidngly before them. 

 No fear of famine need oppress their thoughts as with busy axes they at- 

 tacked the wilderness and let in the sunlight upon their little clearings. 

 The advantages afforded by. the nearness of water to all parts of the eastern 

 section of the county were appreciated as soon as seen, and account for its 

 priority of sstdement. The same advantage led originally to the settlement 

 and cultivation of the lands along the north and south sides of the county, 



*LIGHT-HOUSES AND I.IGHT-VESSELS IN SUFFOLK COUNTY WATERS. 



Remarks. 

 Daboll's Trumpet. 



Steam siren ; south side of entrance to L. 



I. Sound. 

 North of Setauket. 

 East side of Fire Island Inlet. 

 Bell; entrance to Sag Harbor. 



" Fisher's Island Sound. 

 North point of (iardiner's Island. 

 Huntington Bay; S. E. point of Llofd's 



Neck. 

 Horton's Point, north of Southold vil- 

 lage. 

 Pondquogue Point. 

 Entrance irom Gardiner's Bay to Onent 



and Greenport harbors and Peconic 



Bay; bell. 

 Middle Ground, L. I. Sound, trumpet 



and bell. 

 Off Fisher's Island Point, to mark 



north side of entrance to L. I. 



Sound. 

 Bell, west end of Plum Island to mark 



enterance to Plum Gut, 

 Cold Spring Harbor — not yet built. 

 Cerberus Shoal — light- ship to be placed thereon. 



