4 Geology, &fc. of the Connecticut. 



rival and departure of vessels. Indeed, the beauty of the 

 prospect from this spot is much greater than one would 

 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-Haven to Stratford, and 

 not less than fifty or sixty miles of the coast of Long Island 

 btcanie visible, as well as the villages of Milford andNorth- 

 Milford ; and just rising over the trees, appeared the spires 

 of New-Haven. I know not any specific appellation for 

 this commanding plateau. 



Prospect from Middletown^ Upper Houses, 



At the 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 Msddletown is 

 placed, with the city and the river. Here too 1 had the 

 pleasure, on one occasion, of seeing the various objects of 

 this landscape, artificial and natural, partially covered by a 

 fo^i ; 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 conoflomerate at the foot of this hill, I found the 

 beautiful Borrera chrysophihnlma Ach : And this is the only place iu which 

 I have ever seen it in New-England, except upon the puddiagstone of Rox- 

 bury, Mass. 



