A home geography of New York city . Old View from Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn. TOPUCJKAPHY 45 Look for another island east of Coney Island. When reading aboutthe street-cleaning department in this book your teacher will tellyou what is done on this island with some of the refuse of the backbone of Brooklyn consists of a chain of low hillsextending from the bay shore at Fort Hamilton in a northeasterlydirection. Look at therelief map. This chainof low hills passesthrough Greenwoodcemetery, ProspectPark, and East NewYork into the jjoroughof Queens. Do you seethe direction on therelief map
A home geography of New York city . Old View from Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn. TOPUCJKAPHY 45 Look for another island east of Coney Island. When reading aboutthe street-cleaning department in this book your teacher will tellyou what is done on this island with some of the refuse of the backbone of Brooklyn consists of a chain of low hillsextending from the bay shore at Fort Hamilton in a northeasterlydirection. Look at therelief map. This chainof low hills passesthrough Greenwoodcemetery, ProspectPark, and East NewYork into the jjoroughof Queens. Do you seethe direction on therelief map? This chainof hills is not a rocky ridge, it IS made up House of Simon Aertsen de Hart on Gowanus of loose material, such ^-^^^ ^^^ standing (18G7) as cobblestones, bowlders, clay, sand, and gravel. From these hillsthe land slopes gently towards the north. South of this chain ofhills the land is low and in some places marshy. Along the shore opposite the lower point of Manhattan thereis an irregular bluff known as Brooklyn Heights. Between FortHamilton and Evergreen ceme
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