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unoccupied by houses. Lots here, of 25 feet by 100, sell from $100 to $400 - and some even still lower than $100. Off on the streets which are still unregulated, the owners are glad to sell, at moderate prices, in order to save the future assessments, which run up alarmingly against the large proprietors. Many a mechanic who pays $100 or $150 a year rent, would do far better to go out here and buy a lot, or a couple of lots, if possible, and himself a little cottage. The place is healthier, and the whole arrangement would be cheaper.

To East Brooklyn, which lies between Bedford and Cumberland avenues we intend devoting a special artical [sic], and thus refrain from mentioning it here, further than to say that it is one of the healthiest sections of the city. The land is high in situation, and, as yet the water is unusually good for cities. -- Added to these merits, the houses are not crowded closely.

Clinton avenue, which intersects Myrtle at a distance of two miles from the Fulton ferry, is the finest street of its kind in Brooklyn. It runs from the water, at the Wallabout, to the old Bedford turnpike ample in width, and lined on each side by thrifty shade trees -- to which ornament, all along, we are glad

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to see the East Brooklynites devote considerable pains and expertise. Clinton avenue may be said to promise, in the future, as it already is, a charming spot for residence or promenade. -- Nor must the other cross streets here be forgotten. -- They begin at the Wallabout, and are laid out to the Bedford turnpike also -- though at present they are only opened to Myrtle avenue.

The contemplated Washington park borders on the streets whose traits we are narrating. When at (that) noble improvement is consummated, it will elevate the whole standard of affairs in this part of the city -- a part, too, where a park of the kind is so much needed; for no one with common judgement can fail to see that stretching far and wide the streets here are, in a few years, to be filled with a dense mass of busy human beings. Shall there not be one single spot to relieve the desolating aspect of all houses and pavements? And now, too, when the park can be had so cheaply! (The price asked by the owners is only about $70 a lot - much below its intrinsic value.)

Descending Fort Green one comes amid a colony of squatters, whose chubby children, and the goodnatured brightness of the eyes of many an Irish woman tell plenty enough that you are winding your way among the shanties