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Excerpt from Picture of New-York in 1846: With a Short Account of Places in Its Vicinity; Designed as a Guide to Citizens and Strangers, With Numerous Engravings, and a Map of the City
IT was formerly the custom of the Atlantic tribes of North American Indians to resort to the sea coast during the summer months, where they spent their time in the peaceful employments of hunting and fishing; leaving the sterner occupations of war for the secret ambushes of the interior forests. They generally selected for their summer residences some place easy of access, and immediately contiguous to their sporting grounds. The island of N ew York, or as it was called by the natives, Manhattan, was a favourite resort of the Hudson river tribes. Abundant evidence of this fact is found in the history of its first dis covery, and the indestructible relics that every Where abound, buried in the ground. Excavations in the primitive soil often expose large quantities of shells, the remnants of their clam bakes and various specimens of arrow heads, stone-axes and Chisels, are found in the upper parts ofthe island. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
