"For about ten miles from New-York is a place called Hell-Gate, which being a narrow passage, there runneth a violent …"

"The Fruits natural to the Island, are Mulberries, Posimons, Grapes great and small, Huckelberries, Cramberries, Plums…"

"To say something of the Indians, there is now but few upon the Island, and those few no ways hurtful but rather servi…"

"... if there be any terrestrial happiness to be had by people of all ranks, especially of an inferior rank, it must c…"

"I must needs say, that if there be any terrestrial Canaan, 'tis surely here, where the Land floweth with milk and hon…"

"... how free are those parts of the world from that pride and oppression, with their miserable effects, which many, n…"

"He was obviously a close and shrewd observer, but with little grace of style, and somewhat devoid of a sense either o…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"