The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-05-15

have been covered
N 49, up IN the extern
sion Of New forks building ground.
and only wait the chance afforded by
he oxcayator'aplck TO ahowthat though
forgotten they are not dead. New
York city. and especially the lower
end OF Il. appears TO be- ground 70 solid
and IL covered with masses Of build
lings 30 enormous that Il Is hard TO be-
lleve that large portion OF 4 has been
built up on pools, swampa, ereama and
made ground. Yet suclf : the fact
says New York papq
The penlnsular OF Maintain
island must have Den as wet nd
swamnv as ali IIoiland itself when
Ncw Amsters .m Was founded beside |
me msr-h Fhich ran up 10 Broad
.....s = srom the East river. and. In all
49, babiity. 4 was this very swampI-
'aoes that led the Dulchmen to select
q as their new homt This particular
: piece OF marsh land ended m A
iwampy pasture. which ran almost nm
10 Wall street. and was drained nv A
ANAL with two lateral branchoh along
, iridge street called the Common
Ditch.
This was the smallest Of the marshas
A short walk beyond the wall would
; cad the hurghers TO q large wet field
.alled Beokman's swamp. which COW
Fred nearly all Of the area bounded BY
Frankfort. Fulton. and william
{. streets and the then water front. De-
: Fond this going east. came little
! narrow neck Of solid land and then a
itill larger swamp called the RoOse-
selt swamp. which extended almost up
% Park row and covered all the area
nOw Included By that street. the water
Il front as Il was. and James and Pearl
~ streets, Through Il ran quite a stream
q allied She Aud XIII. This stream be-
p gan about the Junction OF Roosevelt
ot street and Park row In a narrow band
- u marah. whica on the other side Of
y Park Row openod into a big swamp
"a lying around two pools Of fresh water
= ,alled the Collect ponds. This swamu
oI and. ran up as far "a Grand slre,f
ni and which nlled In nearly the whole
n n the space between Broadway and
h he Dowery as far south as Franklin
b street. narrowed TO a small outlet at
ie The junction OF Canal street ana
= Broadway and then spread out into an
IL extensive series OF awamps. One OF
r .hose extended as far south rs the cor
u ncr Of Franklin aud Hudson streets:
. mother, known as hspenards swamp.
~ Or meadows, ran almost up TO Houston
E street. while third reached FAR in
E and in a northcstorly direction as Tar
Z ip rs the corner OF Twelfth stree; and
Ie Sixth avenue Il will BE- seen. there
l. ,ore. that this series OF swamps. pools.
;. and streams. extending diagonaily
u across town from the foot % Ro0se-
% vclt street TO the Hudson river. practlc-
ally divided Manhattan island into
Two parts. and made a subsidiary Isle
II the downtown portion. Through the
! upper arm OF the great western chain
a n uwamps there flowed the stream
N which has 50 bothered the contractor
m referred to In the opening paragraph.
,r For some reason or other this strean,
A. seems TO have been subject OF "a
In much diversity Of opinion among the
TO early topographors as Il has been
IS among the later gosslps OF Greenwich
e. village. The Dutch map makers did
"a not apparently venture as far north
10 40 this, but In map made By Col.
"a John Monlrcsor IN the winter OF i775
By Tor the Hon. Thomas Gage. major gen
Of tral and commandments OF his
a. najesly'a foroes m North America.
IN this stream 10 iounu Sc, down. II "a
"a plotted as creek which apparently
L. Trained the swamp land that reached
q from beyond the obelisk read to the
a. Greenwich road. that Is. from about
a. Greenwich avenue 10 Greenwich street
h along the line OF Christopher street.
he between the high land on which Lady
& Warren's house was built. and the hills
D. back OF which lay the Llspenard
wamps. The PECULIARLY OF the stream
was. according to Montre8or that Il
aad neither source nor mouth; Il Just
:. ay there.