Illustrated Sketch Book of Staten Island, New York, Its Industries and Commerce, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

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ISBN: 9781332142552
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Excerpt from Illustrated Sketch Book of Staten Island, New York, Its Industries and Commerce, Vol. 9 Staten Island, "the emerald gem lying between crystal seas," is, without question, one of the most picturesque and charming spots in America. Far enough away from the great city to preserve all the delightful beauties of nature, and near enough to admit of rapid and comfortable transit, it is enjoyed by all classes of citizens as a place for residence, recreation and business. Its shores are almost everywhere dotted with the villas of New York business and professional men. Its numerous villages are animate with life. Its dwellersare active, intelligent and interested in the best welfare and development of their minds and bodies; and the internal economy and government of the Island are so administered as to secure good order and domestic happiness. Descriptive. Staten Island is located in the Bay of New York, distant about five and a-half miles from the city, at St. George, the nearest point. It is in form an irregular triangle, its extreme length being thirteen and one-half miles, and extreme breadth about seven and three-fourth miles. The Kill Van Kull separates it from Newark Bay and New Jersey on the north; New York Harbor and the Lower Bay bound it on the east and south, and Staten Island Sound and the Arthur Kill run between it and New Jersey, on the west. Its area is about sixty square miles, nearly all under cultivation. The surface is greatly diversified, and exhibits smooth, fertile plains, beautiful valleys and stately hills covered with verdure, from whose summits grand and noble views of the surrounding country and moving life on the waters can be obtained. No such charming variety of scenery can be found within one hundred miles of New York. A ridge of hills about 300 feet above tide-water stretches from northeast to southwest. 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.