A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . HOUSE OF NICHOLAS WILLIAM STUYVESANT write the story of the city as he sees it to-day. Re-cently we laid out our tour to the defences thatguarded Manhattanville in the two wars with Great 332 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Britain, in which the spades of the old Continentalswere supplemented by British sappers and miners,and the men of 1812 came in after-years to completethe line of protection for the growing city. We stoodwithin the crumbling stone walls of Block-house , as it was known in the last war with Grea
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . HOUSE OF NICHOLAS WILLIAM STUYVESANT write the story of the city as he sees it to-day. Re-cently we laid out our tour to the defences thatguarded Manhattanville in the two wars with Great 332 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Britain, in which the spades of the old Continentalswere supplemented by British sappers and miners,and the men of 1812 came in after-years to completethe line of protection for the growing city. We stoodwithin the crumbling stone walls of Block-house , as it was known in the last war with Great Britain,on One Hundred and Twenty-third Street, betweenNinth and Tenth avenues, and looked eastward to thebusy city that covers the rough plain of a generation ^?*^. BLOCK-HOUSE OVERLOOKINCi HARLEM RIVER, i860 ago. At our feet a street had been cut through fortyfeet of solid rock, and broad avenues and boulevardsstretched across the erstwhile village of Manhattan-ville and up the steep and wooded heights walls of the block-house have crumbled at thesides, but the ruins are picturesque, and it ought to A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 333 be that the landscape-gardener who is to improveMorningside Park (within whose extreme upper boun-dary these ruins He) will suffer them to remain un-touched.* But more interesting than these mossy walls are theearthworks that lie beyond, and that were part of theline of defences w^hich in 1812 stretched diagonallyacross the island from Turtle Bay to Harlem the hot sun we clambered up a steep ascent ofrocks abutting on One Hundred and Twenty-fifthStreet, between Tenth Avenue and the Boulevard, andreached the remains of an earthwork, whose ram-parts were breast-high twenty-five years ago, but arenow not hig
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