The isles called _Governor's Island_, and _Bedloe_ or _Gibbet Island_, were also well fortified.

On the first, situated to the west of the city and about a mile from it, there were barracks sufficiently capacious for several thousand soldiers, and a Moro, or castle, with three tiers of guns, all bomb-proof.

These works have been strengthened during the last war.
The market-places are eight in number; the most considerable is called _Fly-Market_.
The _Park_, the _Battery_, and _Vauxhall Garden_, are the principal promenades.

There were, in 1810, thirty-two churches, two of which were devoted to the catholic worship; and the population was estimated at ninety thousand souls, of whom ten thousand were French.

It is thought that this population has since been augmented (1819) by some thirty thousand souls.
During my sojourn at New York, I lodged in Brooklyn, on Long Island.
This island is separated from the city by a sound, or narrow arm of the sea.