Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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His body
was interred in the churchyard of Trinity, in Broadway, where his mon-
ument now stands.
" It is to be regretted that the fashion of visiting Haboken and Wee-
hawken has yielded to an impression among the ' fashionable ' that it is a
vulgar resort. This willingness to relinquish an agreeable promenade be-
cause it is enjoyed as well by the poorer classes of society, is one of the
superfine ideas which we imitate from our English ancestors, and in which
the more philosophic continentals are so superior to us. What enlivens the
Tuileries and St. Cloud at Paris, the Monte-Pincio at Rome, the Volks-
garten at Vienna, and the Corso and Villa Reale at Naples, but the pres-
ence of innumerable 'vulgarians'? They are considered there like the
chorus in a pantomine, as producing all the back-ground effect as necessary
to the ensemble. The place would be nothing — would be desolate without
them ; yet in Enlgand and America it is sufficient to vulgarize any — the
most agreeable resort, to find it frequented by the people!"

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NEW YORK FROM WEEHAWKEN



THE NARROWS FROM FORT HAMILTON

NOT quite one hundred years after Verrazzano's discovery of the Bay
of New York, during all which period we have no account of its be-
ing visited by an European vessel, Hudson made the Capes of Virginia on
his third cruise in search of the north-west passage. Standing still on a
northward course, he arrived in sight of the Narrows, distinguishing from
a great distance the Highlands of Never Sink, which his mate, Robert
Juet, describes in the Journal he kept as ' a very good land to fall in with,
and a pleasant land to see.'
The most interesting peculiarity of our country to a European ob-
server, is the freshness of its early history, and the strong contrast it pre-
sents of most of the features of a highly civilized land, with the youth and
recent adventure of a newly discovered one. The details of these first dis-
coveries are becoming every day more interesting: and to accompany a
drawing of the Narrows, or entrance to the Bay of New York, the most fit

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