feast: "May the great wall be like the wall of Jericho and tumble
down at the sound of a ram's horn."

But the wall is still standing on Copper Hill after more than one
hundred years and, although the prison is empty and the mines
deserted to-day, a great many people visit the place every year
because of its interesting history. Guides take the visitors down
the steep ladder in the shaft and lead them through the
underground galleries where copper was mined, and show them the
caverns where the prisoners once slept in old Newgate Prison.


REFERENCES

1. Trumbull, J. H. (editor). Memorial History of Hartford
County. E. L. Osgood, Boston, 1886.

2. "Newgate of Connecticut." Magazine of American History,
vol. 15, April, 1886. See also vol. 10.

3. Phelps, Richard H. Newgate of Connecticut. American
Publishing Co. Hartford, 1876.




THE DARK DAY

"'T was on a May-day of the far old year
Seventeen hundred eighty, that there fell