Chapter XXXIII.  Concerning the Tammany Society and Burr’s Bank. 
    From 1789 to 1800

Chapter XXXIV.  More about Hamilton and Burr. 
    From 1801 to 1804

Chapter XXXV.  Robert Fulton Builds a Steam-Boat. 
    From 1805 to 1807

Chapter XXXVI.  The City Plan. 
    From 1807 to 1814

Chapter XXXVII.  The Story of the Erie Canal. 
    From 1814 to 1825

Chapter XXXVIII.  The Building of the Croton Aqueduct. 
    From 1825 to 1845

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
Smoking the Pipe of Peace
The Old Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam
Stuyvesant leaving Fort Amsterdam
Petrus Stuyvesant’s Tombstone
Departure of Nicolls
The Dutch Ultimatum
Seal of New York
New York in 1700
Sloughter Signing Leisler’s Death-warrant
Bradford’s Tombstone
The Reading of Fletcher’s Commission
Arrest of Captain Kidd
New City Hall in Wall Street
Fort George in 1740
View in Broad Street about 1740
The Slave-Market
Fraunces’s Tavern
Dinner at Rip Van Dam’s
The Negroes Sentenced
Trinity Church, 1760
Coffee-House opposite Bowling Green, Head-Quarters of the Sons of Liberty
Ferry-House on East River, 1746
East River Shore, 1750
Mrs. Murray’s Dinner to British Officers
Howe’s Head-Quarters, Beekman House
Map of Manhattan Island in 1776
View from the Bowling Green in the Revolution
Old Sugar-House in Liberty Street, the Prison-House of the Revolution
North Side of Wall Street East of William Street
Celebration of the Adoption of the Constitution
View of Federal Hall and Part of Broad Street, 1796
The John Street Theatre, 1781
Reservoir of Manhattan Water-Works in Chambers Street
The Collect Pond
The Grange, Kingsbridge Road, the Residence of Alexander Hamilton
The Clermont, Fulton’s First Steam-Boat
Castle Garden
Landing of Lafayette at Castle Garden
View of Park Row, 1825
High Bridge, Croton Aqueduct
Crystal Palace

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