. History of the city of New York . dwas, as seen from the bay, the most prominent object on the island. Notfar from it were the bakeiy, brewery, and warehouse of the company. A feiTy to Long Island had been established before Kiefts arrival,from the vicinity of Pecks Slip to a point a little below the presentFulton Ferry. Cornells Dircksen, who had a farm in that vicinity, cameat the sound of a born, which hiing against a tree, and ferried the wait-ing passengers across the river in a skiff, for the moderate charge ofthree stivers in wampum. Many thousands now cross the Brooklynferries daily
. History of the city of New York . dwas, as seen from the bay, the most prominent object on the island. Notfar from it were the bakeiy, brewery, and warehouse of the company. A feiTy to Long Island had been established before Kiefts arrival,from the vicinity of Pecks Slip to a point a little below the presentFulton Ferry. Cornells Dircksen, who had a farm in that vicinity, cameat the sound of a born, which hiing against a tree, and ferried the wait-ing passengers across the river in a skiff, for the moderate charge ofthree stivers in wampum. Many thousands now cross the Brooklynferries daily at about the same place. (■OMlKTrrioX OF SWHDKS. HI TluMV WHS ;i road wliicli had Ik-cm rmiiicd tni\r| limn tlic Imltowards Llie northern part of Manhattan Island, crookin;, aliuiiL to avoidhills and raviuus, and which uii,i,dit havy Infcn nioni truly ciiilrd a |)()ii Iilhcr side of it, allhniii^h at considerable distances apart, werelaid out, and sonu^ JMi-lish . ulmiists, who ivnioved to this hitheito imcul-. First Ferry to Long Island. tivated district from Virginia, brought \\ith them cherry and peach trees,and soon rendered it somewhat interesting to agriculturists. Kieft wasextravagantly fond of flowers, and encouraged gardening after the mostapproved European standard. He also stocked the farms with fine all at once appeared as a competitor with France, England,and Holland for a foothold in North America. Peter Miniiet had offeredto that power the benefit of his colonial experience; and an ex-pedition was placed under his direction, with fifty emigrants, aLutheran minister, goods for the Indian trade, and the necessaries formaking a little colony comfortable in a strange land. They came tothe Delaware Bay country, where Minuet bought of the sachem Matte-hoorn, for a kettle and other trifles, as much land as would serve tobuild a house upon and make a plantation. For this land a deed wasgiven, written in Low Dutch, as no Swede could int
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