Reminiscences of an Old Yorker (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I have no recollection of the passage down the river, owing, probably, to my making up in the day for the sleep I had lost the night before. But I recollect the drive in a carriage from the Albany pier, where we had landed, up Whitehall and Broadway towards our future residence. We passed under the eastern wall of the old Fort, called the upper battery, and, seeing the dismounted guns lying about the esplanade in'front, I thought, for a mo ment, we had got back to West Point; but was undeceived when I saw the pedestal within the palings of the Bowling Green, from the tepof which the leaden statue of George III had been dismounted, to be cast into rebellious bullets. I was next attracted by the ruined walls of the houses burnt in the great fire of 1776, which occupied very much the same ground on Broadway covered by the late more exten sive confiagration, but did not include the buildings destroyed by the latter in Broad street, and the streets in its neighborhood. On the other hand, the former compre hended Trinity Church, the ruins of which remained standing until another was erected on the same site, which has been since removed to make way for the present superb edifice.

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