. Bell's picturesque guide to American watering places . e plan of this and future Books, I will, witli your permission,dear reader, accompany you to Coney Island, and while on our journey Iwill give you a brief history of this now famoiis Watering Place, and uponour arrival (if you will place yourself under my guidance for a few hours), Iwill introduce you to my friends, famous for their enterprise in making thisonce barren Island what it now is. I will take you to the various jdaces ofamusement, and will tell you what the charges are; and when the timearrives I will send you where the inner
. Bell's picturesque guide to American watering places . e plan of this and future Books, I will, witli your permission,dear reader, accompany you to Coney Island, and while on our journey Iwill give you a brief history of this now famoiis Watering Place, and uponour arrival (if you will place yourself under my guidance for a few hours), Iwill introduce you to my friends, famous for their enterprise in making thisonce barren Island what it now is. I will take you to the various jdaces ofamusement, and will tell you what the charges are; and when the timearrives I will send you where the inner man may be best satisfied, at themost reasonable cost, for this necessary indulgence; and lastly, if you willkindly refer to my Time-Tables, I will promise that you will notexperience the discomfort of marring a days iileasure by missing the lasttrain or boat. June, 1879, G. C. B. *The illustrations in this Guide, except in a few instances, are reproduc-tions of pen and ink sketches by the author, taken during June, 1879. THE DISCOVERY OF CONEY ? Oer the glad waters of tlie dark blue sea,Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free;Far as the breeze can bear the billows foam,^^^ _ Survey our Empire and behold our Iiome.—Byrox. ONEY ISLAND, in the Township of Gravesend,County of Kings, State of New York, was discoveredby that celebrated navigator, Henry Hudson (afterwhom our beautiful river was named), on the morn-ing of September 3d or 4th, 1609; and, it is statedupon good authority, that seeing the waters swarm-ing with fish, he sent a boats crew to obtain landed on Coney Island, and were the firstwhite men that ever set foot on the soil of theEmpire State. He describes it as a good land to (Tk ^^^^ ^ ^^ *^ ^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^* ^^^ singularly appropriateiks are these words when we note the remarkable ehangew Avhich have>| taken place on the Island within the last few years, through theW ^^^^^^^^^^ °^ ^^^^ pioneers as Corbiu, Culver, Ureslin, Engeman
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