Between the second window on the left and the door was another brick inscribed "M V H. 1752." These were the initials of Matthias Vanderheyden. South of the window on the right, and a little above it, was another brick inscribed " I V H. 1752." These were the initials of Jacob Vanderheyden. Matthias occupied tliis, and the other two built houses elsewhere on the plot. AsWey afterward kept an inn at the corner of Eiver and Ferry Streets. On his sign was a portrait of Washington, and the words " Why here's Ashley's."

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extensive water power. After a hard struggle, Troy was made the countyseat, and the court-house was erected there, and from that time the growth of Lansingburgh was slow, whilst Ti'oy increased with wonderful rapidity. The former had 6,000 inhabitants in 1860, and the latter almost 50,000. It has always been conspicuous for well-dirocted and associated public spirit, and its institutions of learning are among the best in the land. The most noted of these are the Eensselaer Institute, founded and endowed by the late Stephen "Van Eensselaer of the Manor,

EENSSELAEE ANU SARATOGA EAILWAY BKIDGE.

the Troy Female Seminary, and the Troy IJniversity. The latter was established under the auspices of the Methodist denomination, but the funds for the building were liberally subscribed by men of various sects. It stands upon Mount Ida, and is the most conspicuous object in a view of the city seen from any point. In its immediate vicinity are beautiful residences, which command extensive and interesting pictures of town and country. In their chaste and modest style of architecture, they present striking contrasts to the more meretricious "Byzantine style" of the University.