Flooded cellars and weakened foundations may be traced to the purling waters of the sparkling stream.

But perhaps the trout were jumping.

Then the last fisherman probably worried very little about the annoyances to which his descendants were to be subjected.

In much the same spirit we are saying today, "What will it all matter a hundred years hence ?" Beginning at the Potter's Field, the line of what is now Fifth Avenue left the "Road over the Sandhills" or the "Zantberg" of the Dutch, later known as Art Street, long since gone from the map, and crossed the Robert Richard Randall Estate.

Thence it ran through the Henry Brevoort farm, which originally extended from Ninth to Eighteenth Streets, and which had been bought in 1714 for four hundred pounds.