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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s of Staten Island, receivingthem on board his vessel, dressing them, to their extravagant delight, in redcoats, and purchasing from them fish and fruits in abundance. At this day there stands a villa on every picturesque point; a thrivingtown lies on the left shore; hospitals and private sanitary establishmentsextend their white edifices in the neighborhood of the quarantine-ground;and between the little fleets of merchantmen, lying with the yellow flag attheir peak, fly rapidly and skilfully a constant succession of steam-boats,gaily painted and beautifully modelled, bearing on their airy decks the pop-ulation of one of the first cities of the world. Yet of Manhattan Island, onwhich New York is built, Hudson writes, only two hundred years ago, thatit was wild and rough; a thick forest covered the parts where anythingwould grow; its beach was broken and sandy, and full of inlets; its inte-rior presented hills of stony and sandy alluvion, masses of rock, ponds,swamps, and marshes. 574
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VIEW OF THE FERRY AT BROOKLYN, N. Y. BROOKLYN is as much a part of New York, for purposes of residenceand communication, as the Borough is of London. The steamferry-boats cross the half-mile between it and the city every five minutes;and in less time than it usually takes to thread the press of vehicleson London Bridge, the elegant equipages of the wealthy cross to LongIsland for the afternoon drive; morning visits are interchanged betweenthe residents in both places—and, indeed, the East River is hardly more ofa separation than the same distance in a street. Brooklyn is the shire-town of Kings County, and by this time, prob-ably, is second in population only to New York. Land there, has risen invalue to an enormous extent within the last few years; and it has becomethe fashion for business-men of New York to build and live on the healthyheights above the river, where they are nearer their business, and muchbetter situated than in the outskirts of the city itself. The town of Brook-

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