I smell the blood of an Englishman.'

He was a tall, spare Dutchman, with a bullet head, sprinkled with thin white hair in his latter years. He was fond of his pipe and his bottle, and gloried in his celibacy, until his life was ' in the sere and yellow leaf.'

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Then he gave a pint of gin for a squaw (an Indian woman), and calling her his wife, lived with her as such until his death."

On the opposite corner was seen an elm-tree, yet standing in I860, but of statelier proportions, which was planted more than a hundred years before by Philip Livingston, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, whose dwelling was next to the corner. It was a monument to the planter, more truly valued of the Albanians in the heats of summer, than would be the costliest pile of brass or marble.

Further up the street is seen a large building, with two gables, which was known as the Vanderheyden Palace. It is a good specimen of the

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external appearance of tlic better class of houses erecteil by the Dutch iu Albany. It was built in 1725, by Johannes Bcekraau, one of the old burghers of that city ; and was purchased, in 1778, by one of tho Vauderheydcns of Troy, who, for many yeai's, lived tlierc in the style of the old Dutch aristocracy. On account of its size, it was dignified with the title of palace. It figures in Washington Irving' s story of Dolph Heyliger, iu " Bracebridge Hall," as the residence of Heer Anthony YandcrhcyJen ;