A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 114
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 27S HISTORY OF THE " The Indians (continues the same authority) burn the beaver bones and never permit their dogs to gnaw the same; alleging that afterwards tliey will be unlucky in the chase. Among all the beaver skins 1 have seen, no more than one was of a differ-ent color, and that was white, the outer-wind hairs were golden yellow. This skin was shipped on board the Princess with Director Kieft, which was lost at sea."=^ The deep waters of Lake Wacabuck afford vast quantities of fish, as pickerel, large perch, eels, (fcc. The two former are said to have been introduced here within a few years. The favorite haunts of the pickerel are the Cove and Raven's rock. Upon the south ridge of Long Pond mountain (which rises abruptly from the northern shore of the lake,) is situated the cave of Sarah Bishop, the hermitess. The Sarah Bishop Cave, Long Pond Mountain