. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. ent the Indians fromdiverting their traffic to Canada, as well as enable the Dutch inha1>itantsto follow their prosperous vocations. His logic was convincing, andCharles authorized the Duke of York to grant temporary permissionfor seven years, with three .ships only. Stuyvesant brought withhim, on his retiuu voyage toNew York, a pear-tree, whichhe planted in his survived the storms oftwo hundred winters. As thecity grew, and one old land-mark after another disap-peared, the solitary pear-treelong continued to put
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. ent the Indians fromdiverting their traffic to Canada, as well as enable the Dutch inha1>itantsto follow their prosperous vocations. His logic was convincing, andCharles authorized the Duke of York to grant temporary permissionfor seven years, with three .ships only. Stuyvesant brought withhim, on his retiuu voyage toNew York, a pear-tree, whichhe planted in his survived the storms oftwo hundred winters. As thecity grew, and one old land-mark after another disap-peared, the solitary pear-treelong continued to put out itsblossoms every spring and tobend under the weight of itsfruit every summer. It stoodfor many years, surroundedby an iron fence, on the cor-ner of East 13th Street and3d Avenue; and when, at last,it fell, many a loyal mournerstrove to obtain a fragmentof its broken body to preservein remembrance of by-gonetimes. The railing which en-closed it may still be seen, stuyvesant s Pear Tree. and within it a vigorous young offshoot of the parent tree, putting forth. 216 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF XEW YORK. its leaves and branches with an appearance of family pride, and a gooddegree of the family energy. The life of Governor Stuyvesant was one long romantic history, aswell as an instructive lesson. He had marvelous intellectual power,great subtlety of discernment, and yet a peculiar turn of mind whichrendered him less successful in politics than were many who had nothalf his ability. He gave evidence of extensive reading; a fact initself remarkable, when we take into consideration the age in which helived, and the difficulty, at that time, of obtaining books in this was a courtly man, from whom the freshness nf youth liad quite IntTiisVaulllics huHcJ - r;^ PETRUS STUYVESiSNfT,- ^ - ;^ivS| late Capfain-GenffaiandGiivemoi-iTiCliiefoFAiJisterdaniiiiNewr-Nethepland now called NesvAoikaiidtheDutcliWe^-IndTaIslauds,diedmAX).167laged, go years. tmA i^,N;| Stuyvesants Tomb. departe
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