2-752-471 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'New Haven and Vicinity', 1874. 'The Judge's Cave; Near Savins' Rock; New-Haven from Fort-Hill; New-Haven Light; West-Rock; East-Rock and Meadows', Connecticut, USA. '...a positive historic charm in the shape of the Regicides' or Judges' Cave. In a deep cleft, among a wild group of large, loose bowlders, the famous regicides Goffe and Whalley were concealed for several days, in 1661. This cave is reached by a difficult path over the rocky table of the cliff The legend is, that the regicides were frightened out of this inhospitable place by the glittering eyes of some wild animal glaring in upon them'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]