Identifier: touraroundnewyor00minea (find matches)
Title: A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of Mr. Felix Oldboy
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Mines, John Flavel, 1835-1891
Subjects: Historic buildings -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- History New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE ROYAL EXCHANCE, BROAU STREET
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A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 249 of the city. A man of wonderful enterprise, Mr. Lewisvisited Russia to make business connections, was ship-wrecked off the coast of Ireland, traversed the WestIndies, and was the sole survivor of the massacre ofOswego when Montcalm and his Indian allies capt-ured that city. The red men spared his life becauseof their superstition. Owing to the resemblance be-tween the Welsh language and the Indian dialects,Mr. Lewis was able to converse with them and makehimself understood, and their traditions of the Mes-siah from beyond the great seas led them to look uponthe speaker of this strange tongue—the ghost of thetongue they spoke among themselves—with an awethat stayed their hands from slaughter. So the years went by, filled with commercial tri-umphs, and when the battle of Lexington was foughtthe news that upheaved the continent found FrancisLewis retired from business and enjoying the vaca-tion of life in his pleasant country-seat at Whitestone.Then his cou

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