. History of the city of New York . who received the order, and give NEW ADDRESS IN FULL. Payment for the Parts should only be made ondelivery, NEVER IN ADVANCE. A strict observance of these suggestions will save Subscribers annoyance and loss, and enable the Publishersto fill their orders in a prompt and advantageous manner. A. S. BARNES & CO., Publishers, 111 and 113 William St., N. Y. CHICAGO, BOSTON, GENERAL AGENCIES:PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON AND NEW HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. EARLY DISCOVERIES. Manhattan Island. — Kecouixs of Amkuka. —Tin-: I
. History of the city of New York . who received the order, and give NEW ADDRESS IN FULL. Payment for the Parts should only be made ondelivery, NEVER IN ADVANCE. A strict observance of these suggestions will save Subscribers annoyance and loss, and enable the Publishersto fill their orders in a prompt and advantageous manner. A. S. BARNES & CO., Publishers, 111 and 113 William St., N. Y. CHICAGO, BOSTON, GENERAL AGENCIES:PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON AND NEW HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. EARLY DISCOVERIES. Manhattan Island. — Kecouixs of Amkuka. —Tin-: Icelandeks. — Tirr, Fif-teenth Centuuy. —Venetian Commerce. — Christopher Columbus. — Exglani). —The Cabots. —The Portuguese. — Vasco daGama. — The Fishermen of Brittanyand Normandy. — Newfoundland. — The Spaniards. — Verrazano. — EstevanGomez. —The English again. —The Dutch. — Belgium. — U-sselincx and joiinOF Barneveld. —The E.\st and West India Companies. TAVO lumdred and sixty-five years ago the site of the city of NewYork was a rocky, wooded, cauoe-shaped, thirteen-iuile-loug ishiud,bouuded by two salt rivers and a bay, and peopled by dusky skin-cladsavages. A half-dozen pt)rtable wigwam villages, some ])atches of to-bacco and corn, and a few bark canoes drawn iip on the shore, gavelittle promise of our present four hundred and fifty miles of streets, vastproperty interests, and the encircling forest of shipping.
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