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Quinnipiac River
The Quinnipiac River is a 〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. (The National Map ), accessed April 1, 2011〕 long, southward-flowing river in the New England region of the United States, located entirely in the state of Connecticut.
It rises in west central Connecticut from Dead Wood Swamp west of the city of New Britain. It flows roughly southward to Plainville, Southington, and Cheshire, west of the city of Meriden, through Wallingford and Yalesville, North Haven, and flows into New Haven Harbor, an inlet of Long Island Sound, east of downtown New Haven.
== History ==
The name comes an Algonquian phrase for "long water land", and the name given to the river and the area around its mouth. Europeans found the river in 1614. By the early 18th century, early settlers called the Quinnipiac River the Dragon River after the seals, then referred to as “sea dragons,” that were once abundant there.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Quinnipiac River Fund )〕 Although these seals were likely harbor seals (''Phoca vitulina''), archaeological evidence confirms that gray seals (''Halichoerus grypus''), which are over twice the size of a harbor seal, also lived near the mouth of the Quinnipiac River as recently as the sixteenth century.〔 〕
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