CHAPTER XXXI. The First President of the United States. The Year 1788 CHAPTER XXXII. The Welcome to George Washington. The Year 1789 CHAPTER XXXIII. Concerning the Tammany Society and Burr's Bank. From 1789 to 1800 CHAPTER XXXIV. More about Hamilton and Burr. From 1801 to 1804 CHAPTER XXXV. Robert Fulton Builds a Steam-Boat. From 1805 to 1807 CHAPTER XXXVI. The City Plan. From 1807 to 1814 CHAPTER XXXVII. The Story of the Erie Canal. From 1814 to 1825 CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Building of the Croton Aqueduct. From 1825 to 1845 CHAPTER XXXIX. Professor Morse and the Telegraph. From 1845 to 1878 CHAPTER XL. The Greater New York. To the Present Time TABLE OF EVENTS INDEX LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS New Amsterdam, 1650--New York, East Side, 1746 The Half Moon in the Highlands of the Hudson Earliest Picture of Manhattan Indians Trading for Furs Hall of the States-General of Holland Seal of New Netherland The Building of the Palisades Old House in New York, Built 1668 Van Twillier's Defiance Landing of Dutch Colony on Staten Island Governor's Island and the Battery in 1850 Dutch Costumes The Bowling Green in 1840 Selling Arms to the Indians Smoking the Pipe of Peace The Old Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam Stuyvesant leaving Fort Amsterdam Petrus Stuyvesant's Tombstone Departure of Nicolls The Dutch Ultimatum Seal of New York New York in 1700 Sloughter Signing Leisler's Death-warrant Bradford's Tombstone The Reading of Fletcher's Commission Arrest of Captain Kidd New City Hall in Wall Street Fort George in 1740 View in Broad Street about 1740 The Slave-Market Fraunces's Tavern Dinner at Rip Van Dam's The Negroes Sentenced Trinity Church, 1760 Coffee-House opposite Bowling Green, Head-Quarters of the Sons of Liberty Ferry-House on East River, 1746 East River Shore, 1750 Mrs. Murray's Dinner to British Officers Howe's Head-Quarters, Beekman House Map of Manhattan Island in 1776 View from the Bowling Green in the Revolution Old Sugar-House in Liberty Street, the Prison-House of the Revolution North Side of Wall Street East of William Street Celebration of the Adoption of the Constitution View of Federal Hall and Part of Broad Street, 1796 The John Street Theatre, 1781 Reservoir of Manhattan Water-Works in Chambers Street The Collect Pond The Grange, Kingsbridge Road, the Residence of Alexander Hamilton The Clermont, Fulton's First Steam-Boat Castle Garden Landing of Lafayette at Castle Garden View of Park Row, 1825 High Bridge, Croton Aqueduct Crystal Palace CHAPTER I. THE ADVENTURES of HENRY HUDSON