DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 30th day of April, L. S. in the forty-eighth year of the the independence of the United States of America, OLIVER D. COOKE & SONS, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since. "Land of my Sires! What mortal hand Can e'er untic the filial band That kni's me to thy rugged strand." Scott. In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by secur "ing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." CHARLES A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. A true copy of Record, examined and sealed by me, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. Roberts & Burr, Printers. Ti NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Astor, Ferox and fildon Foundations. 1896 SKETCH OF CONNECTICUT, FORTY YEARS SINCE. CHAPTER I. "August she trod, yet gentle was her air, Majestically sweet, and amiably severe." Bishop Lowth. Nor far from where the southern limits of Connecticut meet the waters of the sea, the town of N is situated. As you approach from the west, it exhibits a rural aspect, of meadows intersected by streams, and houses overshadowed with trees. Viewed from the eastern acclivity, it seems like a citadel guarded by parapets of rock, and embosomed in an ampitheatre of hills, whose summits mark the horizon with a waving line of dark forest green. Entering at this avenue, you perceive that its habitations bear few marks of splendour, but many of them, retiring |