. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. eof Liberty Street, — the historic Crown Street of the eighteenthcentury, the name of which was changed at the close of theRevolutionary War by the somewhat hysterical New Yorkersof the period, because they thought they saw a sort of profana-tion in the word Crown, —the observer notices before him,curving away to the right between high and dingy stores andwarehouses, the same Maagde Paetje, or Maidens Path, onlysomewhat wider than of yore, which Lysbet Tyssens andFrederik Lubberts
. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. eof Liberty Street, — the historic Crown Street of the eighteenthcentury, the name of which was changed at the close of theRevolutionary War by the somewhat hysterical New Yorkersof the period, because they thought they saw a sort of profana-tion in the word Crown, —the observer notices before him,curving away to the right between high and dingy stores andwarehouses, the same Maagde Paetje, or Maidens Path, onlysomewhat wider than of yore, which Lysbet Tyssens andFrederik Lubbertsen, from their respective dwellings at theopposite corners of these same two streets, saw, in the middleof the seventeenth century, winding through its hollow,between the trees and bushes which lined the fence rows ofJan Damens and of Cornells van Tienhovens farms oneither side of it. As he passes through Gold, or William, or Nassau streetstoo, the same observer will see before him the very ravine ordepression, though not so deep as of old, through whichthe first wood-cutters of New Amsterdam traced their. Looking up Maiden Lane from Pearl Street. THE MAAGDE PAETJE 297 path down to the East River shore. In the middle of theseventeenth century it was doubtless like hundreds of similarlow-lying farm lanes of the present day, where the outcastsof the forests — dogwoods and elder bushes, sumachs andwitch-hazels — collect along the hedges, and are overhungby cat-briers and bitter-sweet vines, woodbine and the wildgrape. Towards the shore, near the present Gold Street, wasa wet spot at the foot of Van Tienhovens hill pasture called Gouwenberg (where, near the close of the seventeenth cen-tury, tan-yards were established), and here, in the springyground, the arads, first harbingers of the vernal season, madetheir appearance, pushing through the wet soil with their gor-geous purple, red, and black hoods, and their coarse leaves ofpale green. Here the water collected into a smal
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