constructed, known as the Atlantic Docks, covering forty acres, and aftbrding within the "slips" water of sufficient depth for vessels of largest size. There is an outside pier, three thousand feet in length, and on the wharves are extensive warehouses of granite. These wharves afford perfect security from depredators to vessels loading and unloading. A little below Brooklyn, and occupying a portion of the ground whereon the conflict between the British and American armies, known as the battle of Long Island, was fought, at the close of the summer of

1776, is Greenwood Cemetery, one of the most noted burial-places in the country. A greater portion of it is within the limits of the city of Brooklyn. It comprises four hundred acres of finely diversified land. The present population of that " city of the dead" is probably not less than 70,000. One of the most delightful places within its borders is Sylvan "Water, near the shores of which may be seen a monument, over the grave of an Indian princess, of the tribe of Min-ne-ha-ha, the bride of Longfellow's Hi-a-ivat-ha, who died in New York a few years ago. Also

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the grave of M 'Donald Clarke, known in New York, twenty years ago, as the "Mad Poet." His monument is seen upon a little hillock in our sketch of Sylvan Water, Clarke was an eccentric child of genius. He

became, in his latter years, an unhappy wanderer, with reason half dethi'oned, a companion of want, and the victim of the world's neglect. His proud spirit disdained to ask food, and he famished. Society, of