FIFTH    AVENUE
 

sioners' Map of  1811.    During the first quarter of the nineteenth  Rural
century the line which Fifth Avenue follows to-day wandered over Aspect One
"the hills and valleys, dales and fields" of a picturesque countryside.  Hundred
where trout, mink, otter and muskrat swam in the brooks and pools;   Years ago
brant, black duck and yellow leg splashed in the marshes;   the fox,
rabbit, woodcock and partridge found covert in the thickets covering
the rough, rocky hills which characterized the  upper part of New
York.    A few scattered farms lay about, while the City proper, with a
population of less than 100,000, was still below Canal Street.
 

MAP OF THE FARMS.

Prepared for the City in 1819-1820, by John Randel, Jr.    Showing the farms superimposed upon

the Commissioners' Map of 1811.