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1854." It is interesting to note that Pavilion Hill is shown as 

 well covered with trees. 



The other three engravings are views taken from the vicinity of 

 the Narrows, looking toward the city, viz, " New York Bay from 

 Staten Island, near the Lighthouse." On this one is engraved 

 the information " Pub. for Hermann J. Meyer, 164 William St., 

 New York. W. Heine, New York, 1850, del. John Poppel, 

 sculpist." " New York Bay from Staten Island, Henry S. Beck- 

 with," is the manuscript legend on another, in connection with 

 which there is no date ; but the firm of Coats & Cosine are given 

 as the printers, followed by " G. P. Putnam, New York," by whom 

 it was apparently issued. The third one of this lot is without 

 title, or name of artist, engraver or publisher; but a penciled 

 memorandum gives the date " 1850?" This is the only one of 

 the three which shows the "Telegraph," or semaphore signal 

 pole, used to signal the arrival of incoming vessels. 



The woodcuts deal with a variety of subjects. One, said to 

 be from Pictorial Description of the United States, Boston, 

 1848, represents "The Old Billop House, at Bentley, west end 

 of Staten Island." This is the same picture of the house as that 

 shown by Richard M. Bayles in his History of Richmond County, 

 1887, and later by Ira K. Morris in his article on The Preservation 

 of the old Billopp House, in the Report of the Billopp House 

 Committee, Proceedings of the Natural Science Associa- 

 tion OF Staten Island, vol. 2, pp. 64-70, December 13, 1890. 



From the text accompanying a " View of the New York Bay 

 and Harbor from the Telegraph Station," from Gleason's 

 Pictorial Drawing Room Companion [Oct. 2, 1852?], we learn 

 that "the Telegraph is used to answer to the Merchants Ex- 

 change, Wall Street, New York, in reference to the arrival of 

 vessels, and the arms are kept continually moving." Also that 

 "one or two steamboats leave New York every hour for Staten 

 Island, and are usually crowded, and on gala days from fifteen 

 to twenty thousand persons leave the dust and heat of the city 

 to take a breath of sea air. An omnibus, besides carriages. 



