“The legend recorded the pursuit by the natives of “Manetto,” the Evil Spirit, through Westchester county to the Sound shore, where, escaping to City Island, he stepped across to a safe retreat on Long Island by the use of the Stepping Stones, leaving the imprint of one foot which may still be seen upon a bowlder near Eastchester. He is said to have landed from his leap over the Sound in Flushing bay, on great rocks which were splintered by the impact. Having thus comfortably rid the mainland of that undesirable alien, the story leaves the burden on Long island of proving whether his Satanic Majesty skipped back again, over the gate of hell, to Manhattan, or still remains in the Borough of Brooklyn, playing the devil with metropolitan politics.”

- From Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis by Reginald Pelham Bolton.

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