LONG ISLAND. 
STS 
them have very extensive tracks of land under 
cultivation, for the produce of which there 
is a convenient and ready market at New 
York. Amongst them are to be found many 
very wealthy men; but except a few indivi¬ 
duals, they live in a mean, penurious, and most 
uncomfortable manner. The population of 
the island is estimated at about thirty-seven 
thousand souls, of which number near five 
thousand are slaves. It is the western part of 
the island which is the best inhabited; a cir¬ 
cumstance to be ascribed, not so much to the 
fertility of the soil as its contiguity to the city 
of New York. Here are several considerable 
towns, as, Flatbush, Jamaica, Brooklynn, 
Flushing, Utrecht; the three first-mentioned 
qf which contain each upwards of one hundred 
houses. Brooklynn, the largest of them, is 
situated just opposite to New York, on the 
bank of the East River, and forms an agree¬ 
able object from the city. 
The soil of Long Island is well adapted to 
the culture of small grain and Indian corn; 
and the northern part, which is hilly, is said to 
be peculiarly favourable to the production of 
fruit. The celebrated Newtown pippin, though 
now to be met with in almost every part of the 
state of New York, and good in its kind, is 
yet supposed by many persons to attain a higher 
flavour here than in any other part of America® 
