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Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thedefensive works commanding the approach to NewYork from Long Island Sound. In the neighboringhavens are favorite anchorages for yachts. Beyondare the expansive waters of the Sound, and far offsouthward, thrust into the land, are the deep recessesof Little Neck Bay, made famous by its clams, andprotected to the eastward by the curiously bifurcatedpeninsula of Great Neck. The northern Long Islandshore is very irregular, and rises into hills. Boldpeninsulas and deep bays form it, the surface beingcorrugated into hillocks and valleys, and penetratedby narrow, shallow harbors. The waves of theSound have eroded the shores into steep and oftenprecipitous bluffs of gravel, sometimes rising a hun-dred feet above the water, where narrow beaches,strewn with boulders, border them. At Sands Pointis a great peninsula protruding in high sandy bluffs,and behind it is the highest mountain on LongIsland, Harbor Hill, rising three hundred and fiftyfeet above the village of Roslyn, at the head of the
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TUE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBR^^^ THE NOETHERN LONG ISLAND SHORE. 95 deeply indented Hempstead Harbor, where livedat his home of Cedarmere, for many years, Wil-liam CuUen Bryant, who now sleeps in the littlecemetery. Oyster Bay is deeply indented into the land to theeastward, surrounded by villas and attractive homes,and beyond protrudes the broad, high headland ofLloyds Neck. This was strongly fortified by theBritish in the Revolution, and King William IV.,then the youthful Duke of Clarence, Avas at one timean officer of the garrison. It was attacked and cap-tured by the Americans Avho came over from Con-necticut in 1779, the garrison being taken prisoners.Subsequently the British again took possession, andthe French from Newport attacked them in 1781,but were repulsed. The hero of Oyster Bay isCaptain Nathan Hale of Connecticut, whose statuestands in New York City Hall Park. He had beensent by Washington in 1776, across the Sound, toexamine the British defenses of Brooklyn, and, re-turning

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