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| king_memoir_1843_raw.txt | 217 | 172,824 | |
| hudson_river_source_raw.txt | 191 | 152,169 | |
| aqueduct_board_minutes_raw.txt | 136 | 108,070 | |
| croton_point_sampling_2021_raw.txt | 134 | 106,888 | |
| illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt | 66 | 52,703 | |
| croton_waterworks_raw.txt | 60 | 47,579 | |
| comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt | 58 | 46,131 | |
| old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt | 50 | 39,768 | |
| croton_point_landfill_rod_1993_raw.txt | 23 | 18,214 | |
| housing_taskforce_report_raw.txt | 21 | 16,692 | |
| croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt | 14 | 11,057 | |
| comp_plan_ch2_history_raw.txt | 5 | 3,670 | |
| housing_proposals_2024_raw.txt | 3 | 1,831 | |
| coastal_zone_waterfront_raw.txt | 1 | 246 |
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meet and melt in purple mystery. But best of all is the marvellous transformation when night comes, and the chimneys are down, and the sky-line fades away. There are no drawbacks or incongruities then ; but the corruscation of uncounted lights — flas…
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Com- position, by Bayard Taylor, Esq. Benedict — Composed expressly for this occasion. M'lle Jenny Lind. Conductor — Mr. Benedict. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Festivals and Pageants 45 Great excitement was …
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It was to take place at Castle Garden on the 14th of Sep- tember, and was under the immediate supervision of Generals Mapes, Morton, Fleming, and Benedict, and Colonel W. H. Maxwell, Colonel King, Mr. Colden, and Mr. Lynch. The sedate Evening Post ev…
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the water overboard to mingle with that of the Atlantic Ocean. It was a pretty bit of sym- bolism, possible to people bred to the formalities of a somewhat artificial life, and no doubt carried out with becoming gravity. Medals were then distributed …
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scene by spouting great streams of water into the air as they sailed — streams that have force enough to knock down brick walls. From the start to the finish there was no place where the pageant made such an impressive display as between the shores o…
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seized a boat belonging to the said captain, broke it up, and burned it. They then com- 54 Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Along the Manhattan Shore 57 pelled the captain to release his prisoner. From that day …
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inter- esting sight when Madame Bogardus danced and the Domine paid the piper. He was a loyal gentleman and knew what his position demanded. We read that when some jealous dame declared that Anneke had coquettishly shown more of her clocked stocking …
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honor of General Wolfe. After the erection of this me- morial to the hero of Quebec the drive of good society was out the Post Road to the Greenwich turning; thence across to the Obelisk ; thence by the Great Kill Road (the present Gansevoort Street)…
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first cast the seeds of empire. Hence proceeded the expedition under Qloffe the Dreamer, to found the city of New Amsterdam, vul- garly called New- York, which, inheriting the genius of its founder, has ever been a city of dreams and speculations. Co…
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to enrich the whole neighbourhood with paper money. Fortunately at this juncture there rose a high wind, which shook the venerable pile to its foundation, toppled down one of the chimneys, and blew off a weathercock, the Lord knows whither. The commu…
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came to anchor at night, in the lower bay ; and, on a private signal, Vanderscamp would launch his boat, and, accompanied solely by his man Pluto, would make them mysterious visits. Sometimes boats pulled in at night, in front of the Wild Goose, and …
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there at a table on which burned a light as blue as brimstone, sat the three guests from Gibbet Island, with halters round their necks, and bobbing their cups together, as if they were hobnobbing, and trolling the old Dutch freebooter's glee, since t…
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1804. Sir:— I send for your perusal a letter signed Charles D. Cooper, which, though apparently published some time ago, has but very Digitized by Microsoft® On the Jersey Shore 75 recently come to my knowledge. Mr. Van Ness, who does me the favour t…
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presented and fired in succession. The intervening time is not expressed, as the sec- onds do not precisely agree on that point. The fire of Colonel Burr took effect and General Hamilton almost instantly fell. Colonel Burr then advanced towards Gener…
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Rogers under a transparent French equivalent, wrote one of his most marvellous tales, the Mystery of Marie Roget. One by one he took up the clues ; with an astuteness that seemed almost inspired he worked out the history of the murder. Every one at t…
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post prov- ing too strong for the artillery of the besiegers, and the Americans were repulsed with a loss of sixty men. General Wayne succeeded in destroying some boats and capturing a number of cattle, with which •he„j:£- turned to the American line…
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the favour of the sover- eign Lords of Holland. But history shows that land patents were never supposed to imply either birth, breeding, or previous rank of any kind on the part of the recipient. Patroonships, like houses, lands, ships, or peltries, …
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fountains thereof, with high, low and middle jurisdic- tion, hunting, fishing, fowling and milling, the lands remaining allodial, but the jurisdiction as of a perpetual hereditary fief, devolvable by death as well to females as to males, and fealty a…
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persons. Curiosity on such a point is natural, considering how many of the families now socially prominent in New York trace descent from them. Let us in the first place remember that the scholarly men and those whose lives are passed amidst luxuriou…
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of war, for the de- fence of the Colonists, in case of misunderstanding with the natives. In a colony the necessary stock for beginning was provided to each tenant by the landlord. This stock- ing included one pair of draught cattle, two cows, and on…
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tion of old memories; but in spite of familiar shore lines and well-known contours, the aspect of the stream would be strange and new. He would perhaps be bewildered, while he could not fail to be impressed, by the spectacular display of steam craft …
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will recall Thomas Brown, Charles and Isaac Depew, the Requas, the Lyons, James B. and John L. Travis, Vermilye, Storm, Conkling, Farrington, and others. Harvey P. Farrington is, at the time of this writing, a hale octogenarian, who graduated from a …
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was almost ceaseless trouble arising from the rival claims to the river and the jealousy of those who figured prospective honours and patroonships as the result of Indian trade. An amusing record of a Dutch attempt to put a stop to English trading is…
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a mile belowe that forte, and there sett upp a tent, and carried all theire goodes on shoare, and was in trade with the Salvages. And the Dutch sett up a tent by the said englishe tent, to hinder theire trade as much as they could. And then there cam…
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as the mechanical inventions of the marine steamfitter can never do. In the name of sentiment we deplore the passing of the white wings. It is said that the old rivermen measured the river Digitized by Microsoft® 114 The Hudson River by "reaches," co…
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was composed of blacks, reared Digitized by Microsoft® ii6 The Hudsop River in the family and belonging to him; for negro slavery still existed in the State. All his communications with them were in Dutch. They were obedient to his orders, though the…
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the story of the Hudson River, was born in America before the War for Independence. According to the most approved precedents, he showed in early boyhood a promise of inventive ability, in combination with a taste for art; the latter culti- vated und…
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after- Digitized by Microsoft® Fulton and the Hudson River Steamboat 121 wards Livingston was practically engaged in the ac- tual labour of invention or construction. His connection seems rather to have been that of a business partner or backer. Prep…
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in sen- tences that show a stern repression of the pride that must have made his nerves dance, speaks of the achieve- ment of his cherished plans. He states, briefly, that he has returned from Albany, and modestly mentions his hope that "such boats m…
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to be prohibitive to any but travellers of means, though the accommodations were hardly such as would be considered "palatial" by the tourist of latter days. The advertisement of distances, time, and charges, was as follows: From New York to Newburg …