Chapter VIII
Those Who Gathered about Poe

WHEN New York was a much
younger city than it is, when
it was well within bounds on the lower
part of the island of Manhattan, long
before there was a thought that it
would overspread the island, jump
over a stream and go wandering up
the mainland, overleap a river and
go spreading over another island to
the sea,—long before the time when
these things came to be, there lay
scattered in several directions on the
island of Manhattan and dotting the
rolling country land beyond, sev¬
eral tiny villages. These were Har¬
lem, and Yorkyille, and Odellville,
and Bloomingdale, and Chelsea, and
Greenwich. The last was the ha.m-
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