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Show One of Bill Nye's. Referring to n real cstato transaction transac-tion mndo by ono Peter Minutt, way back In tho year 1C2S, Hill Nye, In his history ot tho United States, declared: "Now York was afterwards sold for $24; tho whole Island, When I think of this I go Into my family gallery, ' which I also use ns a swear room, and I tell thoso ancestors what I think of them. Whero wero they when New I York sold for $21?" I Tho humor of this strikes deeply when ono stops to consider what hna been the outcome, of this original In-1 In-1 vestment. Peter Mlnuit, with trinkets nnd n few bottles of rum, so delighted I tha nntlvo Indians that they .gladly i turned over to him tho whole of Mnn-I Mnn-I hnttnn Island, now tho heart ot i Greater Now York. "Now Yoik, the I Giant City," National Magazine |