A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ssed Second Avenue at Fifty-secondStreet, crossed it again at Sixty-second Street, and then followed the lineof Third Avenue, passing Harsens cross-road at Seventy-first Seventy-seventh Street and Third Avenue it crossed a small streamknown in the last century as the Saw-Kill, and Mr. Randel assures usthat the bridge which spanned this stream was known to all the youngmen and women of his day as the Kissing Bridge. But the English his-torian of the last century, and a clergymen to boot, assures us t
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ssed Second Avenue at Fifty-secondStreet, crossed it again at Sixty-second Street, and then followed the lineof Third Avenue, passing Harsens cross-road at Seventy-first Seventy-seventh Street and Third Avenue it crossed a small streamknown in the last century as the Saw-Kill, and Mr. Randel assures usthat the bridge which spanned this stream was known to all the youngmen and women of his day as the Kissing Bridge. But the English his-torian of the last century, and a clergymen to boot, assures us that theKissing Bridge was the edifice of plank that crossed De Voors mill-stream at Fifty-fourth Street, between Second and Third avenues,while a solemn Dutch historian of the seventeenth century, whose seri-ousness is not to be doubted, has placed it on record that the originaland genuine Kissing Bridge was the one which crossed the stream thatrippled down through Pearl Street from the Collect Pond and crossedthe post-road—now Park Row—at the intersection of that street. vl^v.
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