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THE FOUR CROSSING RIVERS.

all come together, and, as it were, fall in and deliver and transfer to each other, like four big rivers

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.

, and to rest his limbs, allows them to float drowsily and unresistingly on the bosom of the sunny river

any doubt, when Chaos had his acquaintance cut, and the morning stars sang together, and the little rivers

For more on Sing Sing prison, see: Lee Bernstein, "The Hudson River School of Incarceration: Sing Sing

the contrast between the drying up of some clear and narrow brook, and the extinction of an inland river

Far in the north, among mountains of snow and rivers of ice, I sought what alone could gratify me.

nation of swimmers; although our coast of sea, bay, and inlet includes thousands of miles, and lakes, rivers

kindness and philosophy—sending our glance through the cool and verdant lanes, by the sides of the blue rivers

Though we do not expect to set the North river on fire, we are free to confess, without vanity, that

gradual reduction of duties until the year 1842, when they were to be 20 percent, or under" (Blair and River

It was a cheerful sight, that river.

Not that we wish to see you take to the woods or rivers—for we think you can attain all the desired results

Having gone a year or two past sixty, he arrives at a critical period in the road of existence; the river

But athwart this river is a viaduct, called "The Turn of Life," which, if crossed in safety, leads to

the valleys of "Old Age," round which the river winds, and then flows beyond without a boat or causeaway

Striker's Bay was a large mansion-house along the Hudson River on what is now Manhattan's Upper West

On a gentle elevation by the banks of the river flowing through the garden, stands the Human Father,

graves of the dead, Down through chasms and gulfs profound, To the dreary fountain-head Of lakes and rivers

One is the drying up of a clear transparent brooklet; and one the quenching of a river, more extensive

few days ago we were quietly treading our way among the bales, boxes and crates upon one of the East river

proprietors of the Pictorial World, to the best artist picturing 'the baptism of Christ, by immersion in the river

Paul's from the River,' and the 'Royal Exchange,' are unusually elegant specimens of steel engraving.

Thus they promenaded, by rapid marches, amid heat, dust, rain or snow, crossing mountains, fording rivers

In the door-yard, toward the river, are fresh graves mostly of officers, their names on pieces of barrel-staves

Through Fourteenth-street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

The city of the wide Potomac, the queenly river, lined with softest, greenest hills and uplands.

There is no place in the city, or for miles and miles off, or down or up the river, but what you see

Sometimes from the river, coming up through Seventh-street, you see a long, long string of them, slowly

But this city, even in the crude state it is to-day, with its buildings of to-day, with its ample river

the California, Idaho and Colorado regions (two-thirds of our territory lies west of the Mississippi River

with them about each one, in every part of the United States, and many of the engagements on the rivers

the engineer was developed in the following extracts: "The Tide Canal, from Wallabout Bay, through River

The uncertainty with respect to the ultimate construction of this Canal in River street, will not affect

The grade of River street, at the intersection with Broadway or Division avenue, is 10 feet above high

It is proposed to construct this sewer 6 feet in diameter for its whole length along River street to

These, with a 4 feet brick sewer in Broadway, extending from Lynch street to River street, about 450

of Ann street, whence the sewage would be washed by the tide into Wallabout Bay instead of down the river

Tuthill—to reduce River street to the width of 80 feet. By Mr.

permeable land drains and sewers should be provided, to discharge into the natural water courses and rivers

That as outfalls are already provided by streams and rivers for the discharge of the natural waters,

provided, to discharge without intermission into the said artificial outfalls, independently of the rivers

authority certain streets have been closed, so as to cut off access on the part of the public to the river

the children than in any similar district in the city of New York or Brooklyn where milk from the river

exposed to heat, and a churning-jolting for twenty-four or thirty-six hours (as the milk from the river

As the Eastern District of Brooklyn, especially the Greenpoint portion, and all along our East River

vapor of our sugar-kettles, so much vaunted as a cure, is of no more benefit than the vapor of a North river

How soothing and sweet the evening souse in the river, or the swimming bath, or along the sea-shore!

Mayor Tiemann says in his message transmitting the petition: The great benefit to the public of free river

Besides, no city is better situated to afford its inhabitants the refreshing and healthful pleasures of river

Bounded by two noble rivers which afford every facility for locating baths, they should before this have

America not only contains the biggest rivers, the amplest lakes and prairies, the most prolific mines

We would walk down “Love Lane,” and stand upon “Clover Hill,” and view the bay and river.

their iron brothers, and scarcely move a muscle at their shrillest whistle; and so the miraculous river

Over the river, in New York city, among the people, the “Liberty Boys” were not content with the ringing

You can walk out toward the suburbs, or cross the river, or even promenade the flagged sidewalks, with

Or, if you prefer, you can take a bath in the river. Then sleep is such a pleasure, these nights!

What has become confessedly needed over the wild and unknown regions that lie between the Missouri river

nobody travels, far below the great lines of travel—and thence run through the dreary deserts of Red River

as this of the Overland Mail, ought to have been Independence, (latitude 40 degrees,) on the Kansas river

and the same may be said of the Euphrates Valley route, which proposed to cross Africa by means of river

it—commanding a wide view of as noble a panorama as there is in the world—we mean the bay, shores, river

Its population and its productions, its mountians and its rivers have been shrouded in fable.

Those claiming to know, formerly asserted that many a noble river, unable to reach the great natural

genial tropical clime; he fell in with the Niger, of the Joliba, as the natives called this magnificent river

the great desert, and west of the island Mozambique, which, like our own Minnesota, gives rise to rivers

The Frazer River Ferment The FRAZER RIVER FERMENT.

The arrival of the Moses Taylor, yesterday, put us in possession of the fact that the Frazer River excitement

which has absorbed public attention here during last fortnight may be expressed in two words—“Frazer River

adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one in ten, have already gone to Frazer River

lady trails her drooping drapery along the street which stretches like a line of light toward the River

and intellectual food to our young men, and save the best of them from the necessity of crossing the river

time did the inducements held out more than rival those offered by any third-rate house, across the river

established telegraphic communication between New York and Brooklyn by a submarine cable across the river