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Title: New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.) cn
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board containing the prices current should be kept in a con-;spicuous position at the store. This building, however, seeins;to have ceased to be used for store or warehouse purposes-soon after the advent of Director-General Stuyvesant, when)a new and larger structure appears to have been erected as apublic store, or pack-huys, —and used at the same time by-the government as a custom-house. This latter building, ofwhich further notice will be taken, ^ stood upon the north sideof Pearl Street a short distance east of the old storehouse. \ The architecture of the old building was of the simplest*character, and the purposes for which it was used in its lateryears are not known; it was in all probability removed withiua short period as an obstruction to the thoroughfare of the!Marckveldt. ; To the right or west of the Marckveldt, and a short dis-ltance beyond where it terminated upon the shore of the East:River, was a low baidi of land projecting out to a point the ^ See ijage 5VI, jmst.
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SCIIREYERS IIOEK 19 •ite of whicli is now in tliu Battery Park, a short distanceporth of the Staten Island Ferry-house. This was theCapskc, —^the cape, or point, — being the southern ter-Diination of Manhattan Ishmd; but it was more generallyknown in Dominie Bogarduss time as Schreyers Iloek.The sojourner at Amsterdam, strolling down one of the linesof street bordering the broad stream of the Amstel as it windsllirough that city, comes out upon a point of land projectingk filiort distance into the harbor, at the right of the riversluouth. Near it stands a venerable old battlemented towerof btoue, with its roof thrown up into a high conical peak ofcurious form. Here, hi the seventeenth century, the Dutchemigrants and their families usually embarked in small boatsU> reach the East Indiamen or other vessels which lay in thelarbor, a short distance out beyond the curving double lineof booms near the shore. Here, too, their relatives andfriends were wont to assemble to take their

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