Appleton's New York city and vicinity guide .. . re 12^ cents each way. FoKT Hamilton, one of the fortifications for protect-hig the harbor of New York, is situated at the Nar-rows, about seven miles from New York. There ishere an extensive hotel or boarding-house, for the ac-commodation of visiters. The Coney Island boat stopsat Fort Hamilton to land and receive 12^ cents. Bloomingdale is a neat village, five miles from theCity Hall, on the left bank of the Hudson. Here is theOrphan Asylum. Manhattanville, two miles north ofthe latter place, contains the Lunatic Asylimi, which
Appleton's New York city and vicinity guide .. . re 12^ cents each way. FoKT Hamilton, one of the fortifications for protect-hig the harbor of New York, is situated at the Nar-rows, about seven miles from New York. There ishere an extensive hotel or boarding-house, for the ac-commodation of visiters. The Coney Island boat stopsat Fort Hamilton to land and receive 12^ cents. Bloomingdale is a neat village, five miles from theCity Hall, on the left bank of the Hudson. Here is theOrphan Asylum. Manhattanville, two miles north ofthe latter place, contains the Lunatic Asylimi, whichoccupies a commanding situation, YoRKviLLE is five miles n. of the City Hall: the carspass through it many times daily. In this vicinity isthe Receiving Reservoir of the Croton Water-works,containing 85 acres, enclosed by a high, substantialwall, Harlem, eight miles from the City Hall, is a suburbof New York, and is quite a manufacturing place. Itcan be reached from the city by the cars, many timesdaily. Harlem was founded by the Dutch, m 1658,. NEW YORK CITY GUIDE. 77 with a view to the amusement and recreation of thecitizens. The following is from an ancient Dutch rec-ord The Governor and Council, desirous to form ane-w village at the end of Manliattan Island, proposedto settlers grants of land of 45 acres each, at 13 shil-lings the acre, free from tithes for 10 years, and to as-sign 15 soldiers for their defence; to erect a sub-courtof justice when there should be 25 families established;to provide a clergyman, half of whose salary should bepaid by the government; and to make a road to thecity by the companys negroes. Jersey City is situated on the west bank of HudsonRiver, opposite New York, and is connected with thatcity by a steam-ferry, over a mile in length, the boatson which are constantly plying. According to the cen-sus of 1843, its population was 3,750, bemg an increaseof 700 smce 1840. At the present time (1849) it isabout 12,000. It has become an unportant place,
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