8 BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN MEMOIRS - 



The bottoms of four of these kettleholes are permanently occupied by 

 water, viz.: Fort Pond, near the town; Great Pond,* the largest lake on 

 Long Island, with a very considerable island near one end of it; Reed Pond 

 which is little more than an offshoot of Great Pond; and Oyster Pond, the 

 most easterly of all. Both the latter are small bodies of water, Great Pond 

 is about two miles long and one wide, comprises 1300 acres, and occupies 

 most of the center of the Point, while Fort Pond is of irregular shape and 

 is about a mile in its longest dimension. 



The kettleholes occupied by these ponds are the largest on the Point, 

 most of the others not exceeding 6 to 8 acres, and scores of them only 

 a few square rods in extent. Those kettleholes without ponds in them 

 show all gradations between practical dryness and a water table that is 

 only just above or beneath the surface. The nearness of this water table 

 to the bottom of the kettlehole is reflected in the type of vegetation now 

 found in them, or that is developing in some of those whose progression 

 from early stages to final vegetative covering is still under way. 



* Called in most old records and on some modern maps Lake Wyandannee. So 

 in Dr. Dickinson's panorama, figure 2. 



