126 DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY. 
Great Fire in New York. 
16. This city suffered a socvere loss by the great fire of December 
L6th, 1835, which destroycd 530 buildings, and other property to the 
amount of more than seventeen millions of dollars, 
17. Brooklyn, on the opposite side of the Kast river, is properly & 
suburb of New York, It commands a doelightful view of‘ the city and 
surrounding country, and is a pleasant place of residenee. Above New 
York, on the Hudson, is West Point, the seat.of the United States 
Military Academy for the instruction of officers of the army, 
18. Albany, the capital of‘ the state, is 150 miles north of’the city of 
Now York. It is the centre of an extensive and important inlanc 
trade, being connected with the occan by the Hudson river, with lake* 
Eric and Champlain by the State canals, and with Boston and Buffalc 
by one of‘ the finest rail-roads in the Union, 
19. Newburg, Poughkeepsie,* Catskill, Hudson, Troy, and Lansing: 
burg, all on the Hudson, are flourishing towns, Schenectady, Utiea. 
Syracuse, Rochester, Lockport, and Buffalo, arc the most important 
places on the Erie canal. The latter is the great emporium of the trade 
ım Lake Erie. Rochester is nuted for its numcerous fiour-mills, and 
Syracuse for the vast quantity of salt made there, and in the viemnity- 
20. Besides these, there arc many other thriving towns in various 
parts ofthestate, of which, Rome, Auburn, Geneva, Canandaigua, Ithaca, 
Oswego, Sackett’s Harbour, and Plattsburg,arc1he prineipal. Plattsburg 
is notcd for the two victories gaincd over the British in 1814. Sackott’s 
Harbour was the chief naval station on Lake Ontario in the late war. 
16, What is enid of the Great Fire? 17, Deseribe Brooklyn, &c 
* Sıbanv. 19. Newburg, &< 260, The other towna.