mopolitan, a condition which
did not exist in reference to any
of the other colonies then estab- ©
lished.

Jamestown was practically a
farming, home-making  settle-
ment, and Plymouth at that
time merely a refuge for a per-
secuted people. Hence it is but
small wonder that a city of trade
should be established and prosper
in a location midway between the
two. Geographically Manhattan
Island occupies the natural loca-
tion where such a commercial
venture could but prosper, and
which has since received the
recognition, as was its due—a
fact which, shorn of all its view
of sentiment, is still romantic: