. History of the city of New York . revent the Indians fromdiverting their traffic to Canada, as well as enable the Dutch inhabitantsto follow their prosperous vocations. His logic was convincing, andCharles authorized the Duke of York to grant temporary permissionfor seven years, with three shijjs only. Stuyvesant brought withhim, on his return voyage toNew York, a pear-tree, whichhe planted in his survived the storms oftwo hundred winters. As thecity grew, and one old land-mark after another disap-peared, the solitary pear-tieelong continued to put out itsblossoms every spring and
. History of the city of New York . revent the Indians fromdiverting their traffic to Canada, as well as enable the Dutch inhabitantsto follow their prosperous vocations. His logic was convincing, andCharles authorized the Duke of York to grant temporary permissionfor seven years, with three shijjs only. Stuyvesant brought withhim, on his return voyage toNew York, a pear-tree, whichhe planted in his survived the storms oftwo hundred winters. As thecity grew, and one old land-mark after another disap-peared, the solitary pear-tieelong continued to put out itsblossoms every spring and tol)eud under the weight of itsfruit every smiuner. It stoodfor many years, surroundedby an iron fence, on the coi-ner of East 13th Street and3d Avenue; and when, at last,it fell, many a loyal mourneistrove to obtain a fragmentof its broken body to preservein remembrance of by-gonetimes. The railing which en-closed it may still be seen, stuyvesant s Pear Tree and within it a vigorous young offshoot of the parent tree, putting forth. 216 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YOBK. its leaves and branches with an appearance of family pride, and a gooddegree of the family energy. The life of Governor Stuyvesant was one long romantic history, aswell as an instructive lesson. He had marvelous intellectual power,great subtlety of discernment, and yet a peculiar turn of mind whichrendered him less successful in politics than were many who had nothalf his ability. He gave evidence of extensive reading; a fact initself remarkable, when we take into consideration the age in which helived, and the difficulty, at that time, of obtaining books in this was a courtly man, from whom the freshness of youth had quite lu thisVaultflies huric J PE TRUSSTU , late Captain-GeneM and Governor inCliiefofiXmstcrdaTri uiNew^Nelherlaiicl now called New -\oik — _ mid theDittdiWe^-IricliaIslands ,died in AX).167l aged- 80 years. Stuyvesants Tomb. departed, when he retired from public life. He was
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