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mikel
Exhibition Review - 'Mannahatta/Manhattan - A Natural History of New York City' - Manhattan - An Island Always Diverse, at the Museum of the City of New York - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
July 4
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"Forests had more than 70 kinds of trees. We are told that the island hosted “627 species of plants, 85 species of fish, 32 species of reptiles and amphibians, 233 species of birds and 24 species of mammals.” One observer in 1630 wrote: “Birds fill the woods so that men can scarcely go through them for the whistling, the noise and the chattering.”"
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