New York Illustrated: A Pictorial Delineation of Street Scenes, Buildings, River Views, and Other Features of the Great Metropolis (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from New York Illustrated: A Pictorial Delineation of Street Scenes, Buildings, River Views, and Other Features of the Great Metropolis

Battery is sixteen miles; its greatest width from the mouth of the Bronx west to the Hudson is four and a half miles. Its area is forty-one and a half square miles, or twenty-six thousand acres.

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Excerpt from New York Illustrated: A Pictorial Delineation of Street Scenes, Buildings, River Views, and Other Features of the Great Metropolis

Battery is sixteen miles; its greatest width from the mouth of the Bronx west to the Hudson is four and a half miles. Its area is forty-one and a half square miles, or twenty-six thousand acres.

Manhattan Island, upon which the city is mainly built, is about thirteen and a half miles in length on one side and eight on the other, is one mile and three fifths broad on an average, and is bounded at its northern extremity by the Harlem River, which, with Spuyten Duyvil Creek, connects the Hudson River and East River. It is surrounded by water navigable for the most part by the largest vessels, and its harbor is one of the safest, largest, and most beautiful in the world.6 new york illustrated.

Less than three centuries have elapsed since Henry Hudson, the Dutch navigator, passed through the Narrows and disembarked from his little schooner on the present site of the Battery.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.