The Sea, the City of the Manhattans

"I count it high time to get to sea as soon as i can. That is my substitute for pistol and ball." "There now is your insular city of the manhattans, belted round by wharves as indian isles, by coral reefs," he writes. 'Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves and cooled by breezes which, a few hours previous were out of sight of land'