A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . , the nurse, in an awe-struck voice,asked the child if she knew whose arms had held her,and then told her that it was President little eyes watched him as he walked quietly away,and never forgot his stately appearance. I think thatdear old Mrs. Atterbury was more proud of havingbeen the heroine of this incident than of all the socialhonors that afterwards fell to her lot. At the Battery the ancient Dutch progenitors ofthe city of New Amsterdam laid the first foundationsof a metropolis for the N
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . , the nurse, in an awe-struck voice,asked the child if she knew whose arms had held her,and then told her that it was President little eyes watched him as he walked quietly away,and never forgot his stately appearance. I think thatdear old Mrs. Atterbury was more proud of havingbeen the heroine of this incident than of all the socialhonors that afterwards fell to her lot. At the Battery the ancient Dutch progenitors ofthe city of New Amsterdam laid the first foundationsof a metropolis for the New World. But the pioneersfrom Holland were not unanimously of the opinionthat it was wise to build their city at this large number of them thought it would be moreprudent to pitch their tents at Spuyten Duyvil; therethey had found lovely meadow lands with runningwater, affording an excellent opportunity to dig andequip canals, and the sight was so shut in by adjacenthills as to be hidden from the eyes of foreign advent-urers who might find entrance in the harbor below. r:. THE FORT AT THE BATTERY. It was not the Indians whom the Dutch feared, butthe Enghsh. These latter rapacious adventurers werethen pushing their expeditions in all directions, andwhile it was feared that they might turn their gunsupon the colony of the Dutch East India Company ifit was located at the southern end of the island of theManhadoes, it was believed that they would sail quietlyaway again if they found the place bearing the appear-ance of being uninhabited. These ideas nearly pre-vailed with the first settlers, but after an appeal tonational pride, wiser counsels had their way, and it wasresolved to begin operations at the point which is now 164 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK the Battery, All opposition was silenced as soon asit was demonstrated that a canal could be dug thereat once, running through what is now Broad Street,and ending at the city wall, the present Wall at once lent the c
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