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In 1660, the population was one hundred and thirty- four souls: in 1698 it had increased to five hundred
During this period, and for a long time afterwards, almost all the inhabitants of Brooklyn were Dutch
In that year, a number of emigrants, chiefly Walloons, were sent out from Holland to Manhattan, under
Francis Bright, who came out in 1629, were the first regularly ordained ministers in Massachusetts.
All around were then open cultivated fields with farm houses.
other European power, seated upon what must one day have been the easternmost projection of the American
Both shrouded as it were from the world, and dedicated to the service of Apollo almost from their very
Her first attempts at verse were given to the Athenaeum without any signature, or indeed even initial
word, and call Browningesque; for we question if, till Miss Barrett wrote, so singular a position were
bluff overlooking Brooklyn Village (Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City
It seemed as if all that the eye could bear, were unequal to the fierce voracity of my soul for intense
And yet there were the most choice and fervid fires of the sunset, in their brilliancy and richness almost
After travelling through the fifteen years' display in this city, of musical celebrities, from Mrs.
His feelings were not returned. with all her blandishments, never touched my heart in the least.
Whitman as the author of the "Letters from Paumanok" series in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose (Garden City
bluff overlooking Brooklyn Village (Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City
the United States throughout the mid-nineteenth century, traveling as far west as Wisconsin in the 1860s
His feelings were not returned.; A limner is an artisan who illuminates manuscripts.; Our transcription
Orient, (formerly Oysterponds,) Orient, New York was originally called Poquatuck after a Native American
Also, there were crabs, and divers diverse small fry.
Old times were talked of.
Those were jovial times, but now "it was all pride, fashion and ceremony."
They were lost in a terrible storm that came up while they were out at sea.
Whitman as the author of the "Letters from Paumanok" series in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose (Garden City
known Whitman works of this period.; Orient, New York was originally called Poquatuck after a Native American
tribe, but later changed to Oysterponds and, in 1851, to Orient.; Frederick William Lord (1800–1860)
(Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 [New York: Oxford University Press, 1999], 467, 642).; Whitman
Emory Holloway (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), 250–254, and appears in brackets below
Swarming and multitudinous as the population of the city still is, there are many thousands of its usual
They evidently preserve all the ceremoneousness ceremoniousness of the cit city —dress regularly for
gentility in your places; to which they ought to come for relief from the glare and stiffness of the city
Whitman as the author of the "Letters from Paumanok" series in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose (Garden City
Whitman as the author of the "Letters from Paumanok" series in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose (Garden City
The poem first appeared in the 1860 edition as Proto-Leaf. Proem
Glue residue shows that these leaves were formerly pasted to two other leaves, upon which is written
related to As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days, which was first published as Chants Democratic 21 in 1860