"I never was on the dull tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more." THE ENVIRONMENT OF LONG ISLAND SOUND. IX. THE ENVIRONMENT OF LONG ISLAND SOUND. The Isle of Nassau -- Captain Adraien Blok -- Roodt Eylandt -- Block Island -- Great South Bay -- Great South Beach -- Jamaica Bay -- Hempstead Bay -- Fire Island and its Lighthouse -- Shinnecock -- Quogue-East Hampton -- Lyman Beecher -- John Howard Payne -- Garden City -- Jericho -- Elias Hicks -- Flushing Bay -- Throgg's Neck -- Willett's Point -- Little Neck Bay -- Great Neck -- Sands Point -- Harbor Hill -- William Cullen Bryant -- Oyster Bay -- Lloyds' Neck -- Nathan Hale -- Ronkonkoma Lake -- The Wampum Makers -- Mamaroneck -- Byram River -- The Wooden-Nutmeg State -- Brother Jonathan -- Greenwich -- Old Put's Hill -- Stamford -- Colonel Abraham Davenport -- The Dark Day -- Norwalk -- Sasco Swamp -- Fairfield -- Pequannock River -- Bridgeport -- Phineas T. Barnum -- Joyce Heth -- General Tom Thumb -- Jenny Lind -- Old Stratford -- Milford -- New Haven -- Quinnepiack -- John Davenport -- Yale College -- Killingworth -- Elihu Yale -- Steamboat Fulton -- East and West Rocks -- The Regicides -- Wallingford -- James Hillhouse -- Savin Rock -- Saybrook Point -- Guilford -- Connecticut River -- The Sachem's Head -- Thimble Islands -- Saybrook Platform -- Old Saybrook -- Thames River -- New London -- Groton -- Silas Deane -- Fort Hill -- Pequot Hill -- Defeat of the Pequots -- Pawcatuck -- Stonington -- Watch Hill Point -- Westerly -- Orient Point -- Plum Island -- Plum Gut -- Shelter Island -- The Gull Islands -- The Horse Race -- Fisher's Island -- Gardiner's Island -- Lyon Gardiner -- Captain Kidd and his Buried Treasures -- Sag Harbor -- Montauk Indians -- Money Pond -- Fort Pond Bay -- Montauk Point and its Lighthouse -- Ultima Thule -- Isle of Manisees -- Block Islanders -- Whittier -- Palatine Wreck. THE ISLE OF NASSAU.