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which has this to recoiiimend it to republican economy, that it eomes cheap, so that if on a just estimate of the name and fame, at a future day, it should be found not to have been Worth preserving, there will be little, if any thing, to be regretted as having been thrown away? and the late fate of the name of a street, and where the worth great and unquestionable, shows it even at best precarious. The vestry of Trinity Church, however, need not want a name for ther? venerable churchwarden^ Colonel Joseph Robinson, and Park Place, at the same time, left undisturbed; they have only to petition the Common Council for leave to resume" their .original name for Rector-Street, before laying out thei* grounds on Broadway, Robinson-Street. A monument* to come eheap ! as cheap, as where the money for one of marble or bronze* whether furnished from the public treasury, or contributed from the private purses of individuals^ being grudged as an improvident expenditure, is raised by way of tottery, it costs nothing. " There, my lord," said the pious and loyal Jebusite to his prince, * is the threshing floor td build an altar, there the oxen for burnt sacrifice and the* threshing instruments for wood, and wheat for the meat offering, take them to thee and offer, I give them all :"— * Nay," replied the man who slew a giant, " I will Kot take for the Lord that which is thine; I Will buy them of thee at the full price } I will not offer of that which doth cost me nothing."
Let this suffice under this head of discourse, since the whole may be considered as resolving itself into this as a general conclusion, that inasmuch as in the most simple preparation of one of the most simple articles of ouf food, ' roasting an egg, it is true to a proverb, there is to be reason, much more ought there to be reason in giving a namet
Now to attend again to Skipper Block, in his cruise of discovery..
He called an island in the sound Visscher's Island, Fish-er's Island, and the eastern point of Long Island, YisscnERte Hoeck, Fisher's Point. A map of New.Netherland, scarcely more than a tolerable diagram of it, but being as early as 1642r probably the first, was by a person of the name of Visscher. Plum Islands, the name he gave them, translated JkooK Island, the skipper's own name. I trust it did no* proceed from himself: it would give me regret he should be found among those, " who thinking their dwelling places
• See Note XIII.