He built a chapel, at his own cost, on the site of St. Mark's, and in a vault within it he was buried. The slab of brown freestone that covered it, and which now occupies a place in the rear wall of St. Mark's, bears the following inscription: -- "lu this vault lies Peteus Stuyvesant, late Captain-General and Commander-in-

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chief of Amsterdam, in New Netherlands, now called JSTew York, and the Dutch West India Islands. Died, August, a.d. 1682, aged eighty years." •••'

St. Mark's Church, seen on the left in our little sketch, now ranks among the older church edifices in the city. It was built in 1799, and several of the descendants of Peter Stuyvesant have been, and still are, members of the congregation. When erected, it was more than a mile from the city, in the midst of pleasant

country seats. The old Stuyvesant ^^ ^^^^^^^ii=E^-=

mansion was yet standing, and the " Bowery Lane " (now the broad street called the Bowery), and the ohl Boston Port road, were the nearest liighways. Near it, on the Second Avenue, is seen a Gothic edifice -- the Baptist Tabernacle -- by the side of which is a square building of drab freestone, belonging to the New York Historical Society. The latter is one of the most flourishing and important

associations in New York, and numbers among its membership -- resident, corresponding, and honorary -- many of the best minds in America and Europe. It has a very large and valuable library, and an immense collection of manuscripts and rare things ; also the entire collection of Egyptian antiquities brought to the United States by the late Dr. Abbott, several marbles from Nineveh, and a choice gallery of pictures, chiefly by American artists. f