. McGown's pass and vicinity : a sketch of the most interesting scenic and historic section of Central Park in the city of New York. hich can yet be observed at Nantucket and perhapselsewhere. It is not mentioned in the dictionaries. When one of theseold mariners decides to retire from the sea and live on land, he selectsthe site of his home with reference to its commanding what he calls a water pass, or a land pass. A water pass is a place wherehe can enjoy the diversion of seeing ships pass by. A land pass isa place where he can view objects passing on land. The word as usedby the natives se
. McGown's pass and vicinity : a sketch of the most interesting scenic and historic section of Central Park in the city of New York. hich can yet be observed at Nantucket and perhapselsewhere. It is not mentioned in the dictionaries. When one of theseold mariners decides to retire from the sea and live on land, he selectsthe site of his home with reference to its commanding what he calls a water pass, or a land pass. A water pass is a place wherehe can enjoy the diversion of seeing ships pass by. A land pass isa place where he can view objects passing on land. The word as usedby the natives seems to apply more to the view than to the route oftravel (45). Now there is no record to show that before the advent of theMcGowns at the place under discussion it was called a Pass. DanielMcGown was a sea-captain. Soon after his widow acquired the prop-erty it became known as McGowns Pass. With the knowledge ofthese facts and the custom of which we have spoken, we mightbe tempted to find the solution of our problem in the land pass ofthe old seamans phrase, if the documentary evidence were not sostrongly in another MAP OF McGOWNS PASS AND VICINITY IN location ot some more modein sites. Division marks in margins represent projection of center lines of streets and avenues Sitesand topographical features are carefully located with reference to these lines ; 1. American bat-tery, 1776, whence Washington watched Battle of Harlem Heights 2. American battery, Matje Davids Vly, 1776. Ground embraced between 4, 8, 14 ard 15 was battlefield of HarlemHeights; eastern portion now called Momingside Heights. 4. Claremont restaurant, 19055. Grants tomb, 1905. 6. Barrier Gate, 1814. 7. Fort Laight, 1814. 8. Blockhouse No. 4, Blockhouse No. 3, 1814. 10. Barnard College, 1905 ; bloody buckwheat field, Sept. 16, 1776,11. Columbia University, 1905. 12, St Lukes Hospital, 1905. 13. Blockhouse No. 2, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1905. 15, 16, 17,
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