Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 158
S OF THE EAST RIVER and Little Barent islands. These names wereafterward contracted to Great and Little Barn.In Van Twillers day. Wards Island was cov-ered with densewoodlands.Though not sodense, thewoods are thereyet, and if seenfrom the west-ern side the isl-and shows asolid patch ofgreen, the… … SOME ISLANDS OF THE EAST RIVER ing land. At the end which overlooks HellGate, the sweeps of pasture land cover paupergraves. There is no evidence now, at thenorthern end of the island, of a cotton mill300 feet long that was built there in 1812,and which endured for years after the enter-prise…
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