. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. )lanted in many places. You have seen the Dutch furTtrading post onManhattan Island grow into a large English is a part of the first description of New Yorkthat was ever ])rinted in the P]nglish language. Itpictures the town and the whole province ^s theywere in ,, 248 INDIANS AND PIONEERS. New York is built mostly of brick and stone,and covered with red and black tile, and the landbeing hig-h, it gives at a distance a pleasing aspectto the spectators. LONG ISLAND. Next to Manhattan Island, the most import-ant part of N
. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. )lanted in many places. You have seen the Dutch furTtrading post onManhattan Island grow into a large English is a part of the first description of New Yorkthat was ever ])rinted in the P]nglish language. Itpictures the town and the whole province ^s theywere in ,, 248 INDIANS AND PIONEERS. New York is built mostly of brick and stone,and covered with red and black tile, and the landbeing hig-h, it gives at a distance a pleasing aspectto the spectators. LONG ISLAND. Next to Manhattan Island, the most import-ant part of New York was Long Island. An oldwriter said : Long Island, the west end of which lies south-. New Amsterdam in 1673. ward of New York, runs eastward above one hun-dred miles and is in some places eight, in sometwelve, in some fourteen miles broad. It is in-habited from one end to the other. On the westend are four or tive Dutch towns, the rest beingall English, to the number of twelve, besides vil-lages and farm houses. The island is most of it of EARLIEST DAYS IN AMERICA. 249 a very good soil, and very natural for all sorts ofEnglish grain, which they sow and have very goodincrease of, besides all other fruits and herbs com-mon in England, as also tobacco, hemp, flax, pump-kins and melons. The fruits natural to the islandare mulberries, persimmons, grapes great andsmall, huckleberries, cranberries, plums of severalsorts, raspberries and strawberries, of which lastis such abundance in June that the fields andwoods are dyed red. . The island is plenti-
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