A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . FORT STEVENS AND MILL ROCK River at the cove. At the head of Harlem Creekwas the beginning of a parapet and ditch, which ranto Fort Clinton, on an elevated rock, now known asMount St. Vincent, in the north-eastern part of Cen-tral Park. These defences bristled with the para-phernalia of war when completed, but the enemynever came to test them. The ploughshare and pick-. KOKT CLINTON AND HARLEM CREEK axe have almost obliterated them and left but themerest fragment here and there by way of remem-brance. The rol
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . FORT STEVENS AND MILL ROCK River at the cove. At the head of Harlem Creekwas the beginning of a parapet and ditch, which ranto Fort Clinton, on an elevated rock, now known asMount St. Vincent, in the north-eastern part of Cen-tral Park. These defences bristled with the para-phernalia of war when completed, but the enemynever came to test them. The ploughshare and pick-. KOKT CLINTON AND HARLEM CREEK axe have almost obliterated them and left but themerest fragment here and there by way of remem-brance. The roll-call of the Destroyer has been evenmore busy among the battalions of their to-day I number among my friends, still erectand stalwart, though approaching the century mile-stone of his life, a gallant, white-haired gentlemanwho, in the ruddy strength of eighteen years, marchedout under the command of Capt. Thomas Addis Em-met to do his devoir as a soldier of freedom. Emmet,who died in a court-room in the city while pleadingan important case, lies buried under the shadow of oldSt, Pauls. We were talking the other day about the islands inthe East River, the old colonel and I, and he ex-pressed his surprise that they had so long been asealed book to him, as they yet were even to theNew Yorker to whom they came as a territorial heri-tage. Did you ever hear, I inquired, that a battlehad been fought upon one of them ? and he confessedthat
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