A home geography of New York city . Excursion Bakge and Tug A safe harbor contributes to the prosperity of a city. Theharbor of New Y^ork has to a great extent been responsiljle for the rapid growth of our us see how it is ap-proached from the your map and tracethe routes as they arenamed. There are tlnee ap-proaches to upper NewYork bay from the Atlan-tic ocean: one is by LongIsland sound through theEast river, another by the lower New York bay through The Narrows,and a third by lower New York bay around Staten Island throughArthm Kill and Killvan Kull. The principalapproa
A home geography of New York city . Excursion Bakge and Tug A safe harbor contributes to the prosperity of a city. Theharbor of New Y^ork has to a great extent been responsiljle for the rapid growth of our us see how it is ap-proached from the your map and tracethe routes as they arenamed. There are tlnee ap-proaches to upper NewYork bay from the Atlan-tic ocean: one is by LongIsland sound through theEast river, another by the lower New York bay through The Narrows,and a third by lower New York bay around Staten Island throughArthm Kill and Killvan Kull. The principalapproach from theAtlantic ocean isthrough lower Ne^\York bay and TheNarrows. Almostall direct communi-cation with the com-mercial centers of the world by means of steamship and sailingvessel is carried on through this approach. The Long Island routeis used principally l^y pleasure craft, passenger steamboats, and. Ocean Steamer NEW YORK HARBOR 51
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