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STREETS—ARCHITECTURE OF THE LANDING—HOLT'S HOTEL, AND THE BUILDER—THE CLERKS—THE BOAT—VIEW FROM THE RIVER—CROSSING
Fulton Street, stretching from Brooklyn Heights into lower Manhattan separated by the East River, is
Who has crossed the East River and not looked with admiration on the beautiful view afforded from the
She too, has her high banks, and they show admirably from the river.
Soon, now, will come the time for big cakes of ice in the river.
much thought of then; but the world will be just as jolly, and the sun will shine as bright, and the rivers
up town," towards the quieter and more fashionable quarters, and see great changes—but off to the rivers
You learn that, "The Aqueduct commences at the Croton river, five miles from the Hudson river, in Westchester
It crosses the Harlem river on a magnificent bridge of stone, 1,450 feet in length, with 14 piers, 7
The water is of the purest kind of river water.
Whitman alludes to the California Gold Rush of 1849, where the discovery of gold in the American River
around—much like the sparkles of moonlight that you can see sometimes of a summer night dancing in the East River—or
any other river, I suppose when the water is smooth, and the moon bright.
Ice begins to make its appearance in the East river, floating along in "pretty considerable" masses,
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers