A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . iVan\;v, !ivturninjj- annually to their own ; the pn^lucts of their trade. InU>wO. tho Putch West India con>panyotVeivil largx tracts of land to any pet^ ,sons who \vx>uld coloniKe the wuntry. Iand sijtvat numbers came over Ivtweenthat time and the lo.^.i. tivni son;cof whvMJt many of the principal tamiliosof tho pit>sent day have deriYtHl theirnames. WvhhI was us«hI in AlKany in all buildings except the fort until 1647. Thetowu WHS sx»rrv>«tidtHl by a palisade torabout a i-^Mitury. and the stnct law
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . iVan\;v, !ivturninjj- annually to their own ; the pn^lucts of their trade. InU>wO. tho Putch West India con>panyotVeivil largx tracts of land to any pet^ ,sons who \vx>uld coloniKe the wuntry. Iand sijtvat numbers came over Ivtweenthat time and the lo.^.i. tivni son;cof whvMJt many of the principal tamiliosof tho pit>sent day have deriYtHl theirnames. WvhhI was us«hI in AlKany in all buildings except the fort until 1647. Thetowu WHS sx»rrv>«tidtHl by a palisade torabout a i-^Mitury. and the stnct laws iv-spectinjT tnule with the lndia)»s, induvt\ltunuln^rs of jh^j^ous to rtnuovuth Patch chuivh. The hous««of AlKanv »viv built in the stvle of. 158 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Holland, of small bricks, with the gableends to the street, and troughs underthe eaves projecting far over the Dutch language has not even yetwholly fallen into disuse, in some fami-lies. The city charter was granted in1686, and extended westward to the dis-tance of a mile ft-om the river, and north-west to the north line of the manor ofRensselaerwyck, being 13-| miles inlengtli. In 1815 the limits were en-larged, by adding the small town of Col-onic. Canals.—The Erie Canal was thefirst of any considerable extent in theUnited States, was planned and execu-ted by the influence of Dewitt Clintonand his friends, and must ever be regard-ed as the result of labors creditable tothem and the state, the period being onem which much opposition was exci-ted against it, in consequence of the ig-norance of the people of works of thatkind. The project of connecting thenavicration of the lakes with that of theHudson, by means of a channel thre
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