Near the Bowling Green, across Eroadway (No. 1), is the Kennedy

THE BOWLING GREEN IN ISfil.

House, where "Washington and General Lee, and afterwards Sir Henry Clinton, Generals Eobertson and Carleton, and other British officers, had their head-quarters. It has been recently altered by an addition to its height. ■^'•

* This house \ with the (laiighte

as built by Captain Kennedy, of tlie Royal Navy, at about the time of of Peter Schuyler, of New Jersey, in 1765.

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The present Battery or park, looking out upon the bay of ISTew York, was formed early in the present century ; and a castle, pierced for heavy guns, was erected near its western extremity. Por many years, the Battery was the chief and fashionable promenade for the citizens in summer weather ; and State Street, along its town border, was a very desirable place of residence. The castle was dismantled, and became a place of

TIIR BATTERY AND CASTLE fiAEDEN.

public amusement. For a long time it was known as Castle Garden ; but both are now deserted by fashion and the Muses. All of old New York has been converted into one vast business mart, and there are very few respectable residences within a mile of the Battery. At the present time (September, 1861), it exhibits a martial display. Its green sward is

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covered with tents and barracks for the recruits of the Grand National Array of Volunteers, and its fine old trees give grateful shade to the newly-fledged soldiers preparing for the war for the Union.