Indian Names Of Places In The Borough Of Brooklyn With Historical And Ethnological Notes PDF Download

Excerpt from Indian Names of Places in the Borough of Brooklyn: With Historical and Ethnological Notes The maize lands or cornfields, so frequently mentioned in the early records, were found already cleared, broken up, and cultivated by the rude clam-shell hoes of the squaws and well fertilized by the fish that were scattered annually over the ground by the same hands. These attributes, at the very beginning of settlement, saved the thrifty Dutch farmers untold labor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.