Bronx--or a large share of it--was
"2 gunns, 2 kettles, 2 coats, 2 shirts, 2 adzes, 1 barrel of
cider, and 6 bitts of money." The assessed value of Manhattan
today is $5,116,000,000 and that of the Bronx $732,000,000
(realty).

The Hudson River Division of the New York Central turns to the left and
follows the course of the Harlem River, 7 M. long, which separates
Manhattan Island from the mainland and connects the Hudson with the East
River. On the south bank of the Harlem are Washington Heights, with the
Speedway on the immediate bank, and Fort George (near 193d Street) named
from a Revolutionary redoubt. The Speedway was built at a cost of
$3,000,000 for the special use of drivers of fast horses. On the right,
after passing the High Bridge, which carries the old Croton aqueduct,
one of the feeders of the city water supply, and the Washington Bridge,
are University Heights and (farther to the west) the township of
Fordham, where the cottage in which Edgar Allen Poe lived from 1844 to
1849 and wrote _Ulalume_ and _Annabel Lee_, is still preserved.

New York University, on University Heights, was founded in 1832;
the principal buildings include Gould Hall, a dormitory; the
library, designed by Stanford White, and the Hall of Fame,
extending around the library in the form of an open colonnade,
500 ft long, in which are preserved the names of great Americans.

11 M. SPUYTEN DUYVIL. (Train 51 passes 8:51a; No. 3, 9:09a; No. 41,
1:23p; No. 25, 3:06p; No. 19, 5:53p. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 8:57a; No.
26, 9:17a; No. 16, 3:37p; No. 22, 5:02p.)

Spuyten Duyvil is situated on Spuyten Duyvil Creek, celebrated by
Washington Irving, which connects the Harlem and Hudson Rivers. In
recent years the creek has been enlarged into a ship canal.

The town and stream receive their curious name from the following
story, according to Irving. In 1664, when the Dutch were being
threatened by the British, Anthony van Corlear, Dutch trumpeter
to Gov. Stuyvesant, was despatched to sound the alarm. It was a
stormy night and the creek was impassable. Anthony "swore most
valourously that he would swim across it 'in spite of the devil'
(en spuyt den duyvil) but unfortunately sank forever to the
bottom." The "duyvil" had got him. "His ghost still haunts the
neighborhood, and his trumpet has often been heard of a stormy
night."

Across the Hudson, along which our route