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that it enclosed in its view whatever he wised to portray - and outside of the frame all was shut off and darkened... This picture of Guy's, we believe, was thus a literal portrait of the scene as it appeared from his window there in Front street (Downtown Brooklyn) looking south. The houses and ground are thickly covered with snow. The villagers are around, in the performance of work, travel, conversation, etc."

p 269 - written in 1861

"Then the old Potter's Field. During the war times, (Revolutionary) and down to about twelve or fifteen years ago, the ground on which the present arsenal is built, and for some distance west of it, (about two acres in the blocks between Myrtle and Park avenues and now partly intersected by Hampden avenue), were appropriated to a big free city Burial Yard, or Potter's Field. Many hundreds

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of people were buried there, and the workmen engaged in excavating for cellars, in that neighborhood, continually come, at the present day, upon the remains of those burials."

page 253

"We have not, in a modern city like Brooklyn, such marked specimens of magnificent architecture as the ancient or medieval cities presented, and many of whose ruins yet remain. For our architectural greatness consists in the hundreds and thousands of superb private dwellings, for the comfort and luxury of the great body of middle class people - a kind of architecture unknown until comparatively late times, and no where known to such an extent as in Brooklyn, and the other first class cities of the New World."

page 252

"The Topography of the city of Brooklyn is very