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100 acres. It gives rise to Quaker creek, a branch of the Walkill. 
Wickham's pond, lies in Sugar Loaf valley, and discharges its water into 
Warwick creek. It is surrounded by marsh which is filled with peat, 
and in some places underlaid with shell marl. 
Long pond, or Big Long pond is partly in Orange, and partly in 
New- Jersey. It is ten miles long and from one to two broad. It is 
used as a reservoir for the Morris canal. 
Round pond and Long pond in Monroe have been mentioned already. 
Mount Basha's, or as it is called Mombasha, is in Monroe, a mile south- 
east of the two last mentioned. It is two and a half miles long, and a 
half to one broad. Sterling pond or lake is a beautiful sheet of water 
in the corner of Monroe and Warwick, about two miles in circumfe- 
rence, and entirely surrounded by mountains. Its water is finely trans- 
parent, and said to be the deepest of any in the Highland mountains. 
It is the last to freeze in winter. Its waters pass into New-Jersey by 
way of Ring wood. 
Duck Cedar pond in Monroe is narrow, but about two miles long, 
discharging its waters into the Ramapo, at the saw works. The waters 
of this pond are so near the level of Ringwood and Sterling valleys, 
that during the war of the revolution, when operations on the Ramapo 
were too near the British lines, a dam was erected across the north end 
and its waters thrown to the southwest to supply the furnace and forges 
at Ringwood. 
In the southeast part of Monroe, are the Cedar pond. Long pond, 
Green pond, Carr pond, Island pond. Slaughter pond and Two ponds. 
In Cornwall, are Round pond. Long pond. Reservoir or Bog Meadow 
pond. Cranberry pond. Bull's pond, Popelo's pond, and others; these 
however, are the largest; all are used more or less as reservoirs to supply 
deficiencies of w^ater in seasons of drought. In Newburgh, about six 
miles north of the village, is Big pond; a mile wide and nearly three 
long. 
In New- Windsor, a mile west of Snake hill, is Little pond. The 
water from this pond sinks into a cavern in the limestone and disap- 
pears; three quarters of a mile distant, a stream, believed to be the 
same, emerges from the ground. At times the stream can be heard be- 
neath the ground, 30 or 40 rods, before it bursts out at the surface. 
