What to see in America . that has already re-ceived some attention in the preceding chapter is LongIsland. It has a length | ^\yf/jf^-^/ of over a hundred milesand its greatest width istwenty miles. Much ofit is rather featurelessfarm country, but thereare many quaint oldhomes and simple rusticchurches and a good dealthat is attractive alongthe shore. At Flushing,about a dozen milesnortheast of Brooklyn, i-a Quaker meetinghousecompleted in 1719. TheBritish used it for a prisonbarracks and hospital inthe Revolution, and theyburned the fence around the graveyard for fuel. TheGood Gray Poet, Whit
What to see in America . that has already re-ceived some attention in the preceding chapter is LongIsland. It has a length | ^\yf/jf^-^/ of over a hundred milesand its greatest width istwenty miles. Much ofit is rather featurelessfarm country, but thereare many quaint oldhomes and simple rusticchurches and a good dealthat is attractive alongthe shore. At Flushing,about a dozen milesnortheast of Brooklyn, i-a Quaker meetinghousecompleted in 1719. TheBritish used it for a prisonbarracks and hospital inthe Revolution, and theyburned the fence around the graveyard for fuel. TheGood Gray Poet, Whitman, was born a score of milesfarther east, in Huntington, in 1819. He was named Walterafter his father, but was commonly called W^alt in boyhoodand chose to retain that form of his name in later life. To-ward the far end of the island, at Easthampton, is the finecolonial dwelling which inspired Home, Sweet Home. Itis the birthplace of John Howard Payne. In some of theold towns are white-sailed windmills that grind A Windmill Easthampton, LongIsland 104 What to See in America The name of the state was given in honor of the Duke ofYork, to whom his brother, Charles II, granted the regionin 1664. The people are called Knickerbockers. Knickermeans a box, and bock a he-goat, and the entire name seemsto have been coined by Washington Irving to serve for thatof one of his fictitious characters.
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