d there was a long and
beautiful lane leading from the city to it, which was known as Bouery
Lane--our present Bowery.

The Governor's house is supposed to have stood near Tenth Street, a
little east of Third Avenue, now called Stuyvesant Place.

Beyond Governor Stuyvesant's Great Bouery stretched swamps, woods, and
clearings, until a little village was reached at the junction of the
Haarlem and East rivers, which was called New Haarlem.

Peter Stuyvesant made many improvements in the city of New Amsterdam. In
order better to protect it, he built a high and strong wooden palisade
on the north of the town; in time houses grew up along this wall, and
the street which they formed was called Wall Street.

The Wall Street of to-day, where so many fortunes are made and lost,
stands on the site of the old wall built by Peter Stuyvesant to protect
the city.

The first windmill was built in 1662.

In 1664 Charles II. of England, jealous of the productiveness of this
Dutch colony, determined to secure it.

In 1621 James I. had claimed it by right of first occupancy.

In 1632 Charles I. reasserted this claim; and in 1654 Cromwell ordered
an expedition for the conquest of the New Netherlands.

The treaty with Holland stopped these proceedings, and the colony was
left in peace until 1664, when Charles II. granted the entire territory
to his brother, the Duke of York.

In August of that year an expedition arrived to capture the city, which
surrendered to the English fleet without resistance. The name of the
city was then changed to New York, in honor of its ducal owner.

In 1673 the Dutch recaptured the city, and christened it New Orange. The
following year, by a treaty of peace with Holland, it was restored to
the English and again called New York.

In 1702 Wall Street was paved, and in 1711 a regular slave market was
established.

In 1775, at the beginning of the war, New York declared for
independence, but in 1776 it fell into the hands of the English, who
retained possession until 1783, when they finally evacuated it.

In 1788 New York celebrated the adoption of the Constitution--the great
Constitution under which we live to-day and enjoy our freedom. A ship,
representing the Ship of State, was drawn through the streets of the
city by ten milk-white horses.

Alexander Hamilton had done so much to convince the State of the wisdom
of adopting the Constitution, that in recognition of his great services
the platfor