CHAPTER XXXIX. Professor Morse and the Telegraph.
From 1845 to 1878

CHAPTER XL. The Greater New York.
To the Present Time

TABLE OF EVENTS

INDEX




LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS

New Amsterdam, 1650--New York, East Side, 1746
The Half Moon in the Highlands of the Hudson
Earliest Picture of Manhattan
Indians Trading for Furs
Hall of the States-General of Holland
Seal of New Netherland
The Building of the Palisades
Old House in New York, Built 1668
Van Twillier's Defiance
Landing of Dutch Colony on Staten Island
Governor's Island and the Battery in 1850
Dutch Costumes
The Bowling Green in 1840
Selling Arms to the Indians