Excerpt from Revised History of Harlem (City or New York), Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands, or Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration: Also Sketches of Numerous Families and the Recovered History of the Land-Titles The eye is now sensibly relieved, as the coast again becomes elevated, and the chalk cliffs reappear, crowned with green wav ing tufts of forests and orchards. At ten miles beyond the Somme, and eighteen leagues from gris-nez, is visible the gap or opening at the river Bresle, which marks the southern limit of Picardy. N ow, putting helm aport, we bear south-west along the rock-bound coast of Normandy, its continuity only broken here at intervals by the openings through which the rivers fall into the sea, and which form several secure harbors, as Dieppe, St. Valery - em-caux, and Fecamp, near the latter of which the bluffs attain an altitude of seven hundred feet. Dieppe is asso ciated with two of our settlers, Lozier and Lemaire. 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.

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