opposite the city of New York, is the large and beautiful city of Brooklyn,* whose intimate social and business relations with the metropolis, and connection by numerous ferries, render it a sort of suburban town. Its growth has been wonderful. Less than sixty years ago, it contained only a ferry-house, a few scattered dwellings, and a church. Now it comprises an area of 16,000 acres, with an exterior line of twenty-two miles. Like New York, it has absorbed several villages. It was incorporated a village in 1816, and a city in 1834. Its central portion is

JERSEY CITY A2iD CL^AR1> DOCK.

upon a range of irregular hills, fortified during the revolution. The bluff on which Fort Stirling stood -- now known as "The Heights" -- is covered with fine edifices, and affords extensive views of New York and its harbour. "Williamsburgh, which had become quite a large city, was annexed to Brooklyn in 1854. Between the two cities is Wallabout Bay, the scene of great suffering among the American prisoners, in British prison-ships, during the revolution. Eleven thousand men perished

» From the Uiitcli Srcudc-ljndl-- broken land.

THE HUDSON.

there, and their remains were buried in shallow graves on the shore. Near its banks was born Sarah Eapelje, the first child of European parents that drew its earliest breath within the limits of the State of New York.'''' Upon that aceldama of the old war for independence in the vicinity of the Hudson, is now a dockyard of the United States Government, which covers about forty-five acres of land. "Within the enclosure is a depository of curious things, brought home by officers and seamen of the navy, and is called the Naval Lyceum, It contains a fine geological