418 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

Canarsee tribe, which occupied Kings County and a part of Jamaica, and which held its council fires probably at Flatlands, at the place yet known as Canarsee.

APPENDIX IV.—(PAGE 45.)

A VISIT TO BROOKLYN, IN HOLLAND.—(From the Brooklyn Eagle, Sept. 12, 1859.)

“The village lies for the most part between the main road and the stream, and consists of three or four hundred houses, accommodating about 1,500 inhabitants. It is a very old place; the houses are small and dull with age, the few streets which intersect it are very irregular, and the people apparently without enterprise or thrift. There were a few large houses, especially three or four, intended for refreshments or resorts for the village topers. The Reformed Church is rather a commodious building with a handsome spire. But upon the whole the impression of the interior of the town was not pleasing. We went through the main road in both directions; for as we were probably the first natives of Brooklyn who had ever visited it,Ñas least so far as any known record goes,Ñwe determined to see it thoroughly. We found, when we got out to the fields, snug residences surrounded with flowers and duck ponds, and every thing around them in perfect neatness and order. On one side of the village we entered a little covert of shrubbery laid out in walks, and containing perhaps half an acre of ground. This was the village park,Ña sign of living taste, and we began to have a better feeling about the place. We at length crossed the bridge which spans the Vecht and connects the two communities of Breukelen Nijenrodes and Breukelen St. Pieters. It is in the former that the village of Breukelen is situated; the latter is entirely a rural district.

“The view from the point we had now reached was charming. Nothing can exceed the quiet beauty of the scene. The Vecht is about an hundred yards wide, and its waters flow sluggishly along on an unchanged level from one end of the year to the other, meandering through green meadows and in front of plain but substantial country houses, which show every sign of comfort as well as antiquity. The village reposes upon it a picture of perfect indolence. All along the margin of the river are koepels or tea houses belonging to the dwellings of the town; though these summerhouses are the least ornamental, as a whole, that we have seen any where, being, without exception, plain square buildings, ten or twelve feet either