SOBAPSQUA 



FROM the Vermont mainland in the township of 

 Charlotte, a long cape, toothed with minor points 

 and indented with small bays, reaches far west- 

 ward toward the bald promontory of Split Rock. 

 The cape is fringed with woods, and terminates in 

 a bold cliff, crowned with cedars, pines, and de- 

 ciduous trees. 



In it is embalmed the name of a man otherwise 

 forgotten. No one knows who Thompson was, but 

 it is probable that he was the first settler here, and 

 that a scraggy orchard, intergrown with cedars, 

 and the barely traceable foundations of a house, 

 were his, and that some crumbling lines of stone 

 wall mark the divisions of his sterile fields. 



Doubtless the poverty of this soil prevented a 

 succession of occupants and the consequent suc- 

 cession of names which so many of our points and 

 bays have undergone. "Thompson's Point" is 

 not a good name for a noble headland, but it is 

 better that it should have borne it for a hundred 

 years than half a dozen that are no more signifi- 

 cant. 



The Waubanakees called it " Kozoapsqua," the 

 "Long Rocky Point," and the noticeable cleft 

 promontory opposite "Sobapsqua," the "Pass 



