Anthony's Nose

"It must be known that the nose of the trumpeter was of a very lusty size...Now thus it happened that bright and early in the morning, the good Antony, having washed his burly visage, was leaning over the quarter-railing of the galley, contemplating it in the glassy wave below. Just at this moment, the illustrious sun, breaking in all its splendor from behind a high bluff of the highlands, did dart one of its most potent beams full upon the refulgent nose of the sounder of brass- the reflection of which shot straight away down, hissing-hot, into the water, and killed a mighty sturgeon that was sporting beside the vessel!...When this astonishing miracle came to be known to Peter Stuyvesant, and he tasted of the unknown fish, he, as may well be supposed, marvelled exceedingly; and as a monument thereof, he gave the name of Anthony's Nose to a stout promontory in the neighborhood; and it has continued to be called Anthony's Nose ever since that time."

Washington Irving (1783-1859)