A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

CONNECTICUT. 151
has excellent butter, cheefe, hemp, wheat,
Indian corn, and horfes. Its towns are
twelve.
Windham refembles Rumford, -and
frands on \Vinnomantic river.
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Its meet_
ing-houCe is elegant, and has a fieeple,
bell, and clock. Its court- houfe is
fcarcely to be looked upon as an ornament.
The townfhip forms four parUhes,
and is ten miles fquare.
Strangers are very much terrified at
the hideous DoiCe made on {urnmer evenings
by the vafi numbers -of frogs in
the brooks and ponds. There are about
thirty different voices among them j fome
of which refemble the bellowing of a
bull. The owls and whipperwills com..
plete the rough concert, which may be
heard Ceveral miles. Perfons accufiomed
to fuch ferenades are not difiurbed by
them at their proper fiat ions j but one
night, in July, 1758, the frogs of an arti.
L 4 ficial