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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 874 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISLIP , a township of See also:

Suffolk See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in the central See also:part of the S. See also:side of See also:Long See also:Island. Pop. (1905, See also:state See also:census) 13,721; (1910) 18,346. The township is 16 m. long from E. to W., and 8 m. wide in its widest part. It is bounded on the S. by the See also:Atlantic Ocean; between the ocean and the See also:Great See also:South See also:Bay, here 5-7 M. wide, is a long narrow See also:strip of See also:beach, called See also:Fire Island, at the W. end of which is Fire Island Inlet. The " Island " beach and the Inlet, both very dangerous for See also:shipping, are protected by the Fire Island Lighthouse, the Fire Island Lightship, and a See also:Life Saving Station near the Lighthouse and another at Point o' See also:Woods. Near the See also:Light-See also:house there are a See also:United States Wireless See also:Telegraph Station and a station of the Western See also:Union Telegraph See also:Company, which announces to New York incoming steamships; and a little farther E., on the site formerly occupied by the Surf House, a well-known resort for See also:hay-See also:fever patients, is a state See also:park. Along the " Island " beach there is excellent surf-bathing. The township is served by two parallel branches of the Long Island railroad about 4 M. apart. On the See also:main (See also:northern) See also:division are the villages of See also:Brentwood (first settled as See also:Modern Times, a quasi See also:free-love community), which now has the See also:Convent and School of St See also:Joseph and a large private sanitarium; Central Islip, the seat of the Central Islip State See also:Hospital for the Insane; and Ronkonkoma, on the edge of a See also:lake of the same name (with no visible outlet or inlet and suffering remarkable changes in See also:area). On the S. division of the Long Island railroad are the villages of Bay See also:Shore (to the W. of which is See also:West Islip); Oakdale; West Sayville, originally a Dutch See also:settlement; Sayville and Bayport. The " South See also:Country Road " of crushed clam or See also:oyster shells runs through these villages, which are famous for oyster and clam See also:fisheries.

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half of the See also:present township was patented in 1684, 1686, 1688 and 1697 by See also:William See also:Nicolls (1657-1723), the son of See also:Matthias Nicolls, who came from Islip in See also:Oxfordshire, See also:England; this large See also:estate (on either side of the Connetquot or Great See also:river) was kept intact until 1786; the W. part of Islip was mostly included in the Moubray patent of 1708; and the township was incorporated in 1710.

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