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cing hosts and keeping the Sound on his right flank, he came 

 to the narrow part of it at Throgg's Neck ; and, the tide being 

 out and the rocky islets bare, he stepped upon their tops, and 

 quickly and safely reached the shore of Long Island. At a 

 point on Throgg's Neck where he stood before jumping to the 

 first islet, he left the print of his great toe, and thus gave to 

 the point and the surrounding property the name of "Satans- 

 toe," whose owners, according to Cooper in his novel of the 

 name, were, in colonial times, the family of Littlepage. 



Now comes in a part of the legend which tallies, to some 

 extent, with the location of the terminal moraines of the glacial 

 period on the shores of Connecticut. 



Satan retired to the interior of Long Island in a highly en- 

 raged state, and recovered from his fatigues. Still incensed 

 at the indignities that had been heaped upon him, he gathered 

 together a great quantity of stones and boulders at Cold 

 Spring on the shore and hurled them across the Sound upon 

 the shores of Connecticut as we see them to this day ; before 

 that time, the fields of Connecticut had been free of rocks and 

 boulders and easily tillable. 



At the end of Throgg's Neck is Fort Schuyler, which, with 

 Fort Totten on Willett's Point, Whitestone, Long Island, 

 commands the eastern entrance to the East River, which is 

 here very narrow. To the eastward of the two points is the 

 Sound. Fort Schuyler was named in honor of General Philip 

 Schuyler, who commanded the Northern Army in 1777, and 

 whose conduct of the campaign made possible the defeat and 

 capture of Burgoyne by the succeeding American commander, 

 Horatio Gates. 



The Government reservation consists of fifty-two acres, 

 purchased in 1 826. The fort was begun in 1 833 and completed 

 in 1856. It is built of granite brought from Greenwich, Con- 



