Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . NORTH DUTCH CHURCH, Erected 1798. Recollections of Albany. 25 villages of New England. Nothing, indeed, couldbe more picturesque than the view of North Pearlstreet, from the old elm at Websters corner, up to. Websters Coruer aud the Old Elm Tree. the new Two- steepled Church. Pearl street, it mustbe remembered, was, in those days, the west endfor the town ; for there the town ended, and there resi-ded some of aristocratic of the ancient burg-ers. There, a little after sunrise, in a mild springmorning, might be seen, sitting by the si
Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . NORTH DUTCH CHURCH, Erected 1798. Recollections of Albany. 25 villages of New England. Nothing, indeed, couldbe more picturesque than the view of North Pearlstreet, from the old elm at Websters corner, up to. Websters Coruer aud the Old Elm Tree. the new Two- steepled Church. Pearl street, it mustbe remembered, was, in those days, the west endfor the town ; for there the town ended, and there resi-ded some of aristocratic of the ancient burg-ers. There, a little after sunrise, in a mild springmorning, might be seen, sitting by the side of theirdoors, the ancient and venerable mynheers withtheir little sharp cocked hats, or red-ringed worstedcaps (as the case might be), drawn tight over their 4 26 Recollections of Albany. heads. There tbcy sat, like mouuments of a former age, still lingering on the verge of time ; or like mile-stones upon a turnpike road, solus in solo! or, in simple English, imlike any thing I had ever seen before. But there they sat, smoking their pipes in that dignified silence, and with that phlegmatic gravity, which would have done honor to Sir Wou- ter Van Twiller, or even to Pufiendorf himself. The whole line of the street, on either side, was dotted by the
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