. Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings . View of Brooklyn Navy Yard—United States Naval Hospital at tfie left.[See description.]. Entrance to Brooklyn Navy Yard. AND PHILADELPHIA. 67 Navy-Yard and Ridgewood. (BROOKLYN.) Navy-Yabd.—In 1801 the United StatesGovernment purchased 55 acres of groundlocated on Wallabout Bay, now lying be-tween the Eastern and Western Districtsof Brooklyn. Subsequent purchasesincreased the plot to about 200 acres,which cost originally $40,000, and is nowvalued at $20,000,000. The Navy-Yardproper covers about fifty acres, is laidout with paved s
. Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings . View of Brooklyn Navy Yard—United States Naval Hospital at tfie left.[See description.]. Entrance to Brooklyn Navy Yard. AND PHILADELPHIA. 67 Navy-Yard and Ridgewood. (BROOKLYN.) Navy-Yabd.—In 1801 the United StatesGovernment purchased 55 acres of groundlocated on Wallabout Bay, now lying be-tween the Eastern and Western Districtsof Brooklyn. Subsequent purchasesincreased the plot to about 200 acres,which cost originally $40,000, and is nowvalued at $20,000,000. The Navy-Yardproper covers about fifty acres, is laidout with paved streets and walks, whichare kept exceedingly clean. The DryDock, begun in 1841, is a vast structurecapable of taking in a ship 300 feet long,and cost between two and three milliondollars. It is emptied by yard contains large buildings, tocover ships of war while in process of con-struction, extensive lumber warehouses,great numbers of cannon, pyramids ofshot and shell, shops, founderies, etc.,etc. A naval museum, filled with curi-osities sent home by officers, a marinehospital, with barracks for troops, cot-tages for ofiicers, an
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