Proceedings of the Bi Centennial Celebration of Richmond County Staten Island
Proceedings of the Bi Centennial Celebration of Richmond County Staten Island
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We may speak of it indeed almost in the graphic language of COLUMBUS to FERDINAND and ISABELLA, when, of his discoveries, he wrote home that "this country exceeds all others as far as the day exceeds the night in splendor. " Later on, September i5th, 1609, HENDRICK HUDSON from just beyond our island, in a more utilitarean spirit, wrote home from the Half Moon, "Of all the lands in which I ever set my foot this is the best for tillage. " And this discernment is as true to-day of the capacities o...f this island as it was 274 years since. There were mineral attractions that won the eyes and ears of those beyond the sea. But what they took for gold was sand, and these sand banks were the first in the country to be used for making a kind of glass which was declared to be for " highly useful and ornamental purposes. " Even the iron pyrites with which the Indians painted their faces, was pronounced to be gold until 1645, when the Amsterdam Company tested its value in the crucible of common science and common sense.
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We may speak of it indeed almost in the graphic language of COLUMBUS to FERDINAND and ISABELLA, when, of his discoveries, he wrote home that "this country exceeds all others as far as the day exceeds the night in splendor. " Later on, September i5th, 1609, HENDRICK HUDSON from just beyond our island, in a more utilitarean spirit, wrote home from the Half Moon, "Of all the lands in which I ever set my foot this is the best for tillage. " And this discernment is as true to-day of the capacities o...f this island as it was 274 years since. There were mineral attractions that won the eyes and ears of those beyond the sea. But what they took for gold was sand, and these sand banks were the first in the country to be used for making a kind of glass which was declared to be for " highly useful and ornamental purposes. " Even the iron pyrites with which the Indians painted their faces, was pronounced to be gold until 1645, when the Amsterdam Company tested its value in the crucible of common science and common sense.
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