Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from America, Vol. 2 of 3: Picturesque and Descriptive
The scene of this great carousal is said to have been the island where is now the city of New York. The Indian word Man-a-tey means the island, and from this they named the place Man-a-hat-ta-nink.
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