The Connecticut River, like the Quinnipiac & Saugatuck Rivers, flows into this sound
[DOC] [TLE] Ferry Boats a Way of Life in Early Connecticut | ConnecticutHistory.org [PAR] These were located on the Connecticut River at Windsor, Hartford, ... the 
Saugatuck in Fairfield; the Housatonic in Stratford; the Quinnipiac in New Haven; 
the Niantic ... the boat along the cable line in much the way a sailboat tacked into 
the wind.