[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] and seeming to connect the island with the main. On the other side, toward the sea, a wide beach bordered its entire length. An Indian village had formerly stood on the southern part of the island; perhaps some of the deserted wigwams yet remained; and the upland, like the salt meadows, presented that app< arance of cultivation which drew the white man to tin-places that had been improved in some measure by the natives before his coming. Looking southward, the planters had in prospect*!! almost unbroken wilderness. The only spot between them and New Amsterdam where Europeans had \ct attempted to establish themselves was a point of land, ten miles below, known to the Dutch as Ann's Hook. Here, eighteen years before, the famous Mother Hutchinson had been slain by the Indians, in one of their risings upon the Dutch. This point had since been bought by Thomas Fell, of Fairfield, who was now endeavoring, underauthority of Connecticut, to form a settlement there, in spite of Governor Stuy vesant's remonstrances. Across the Sound, which is here about five miles wide, the shores of Long