CHAPTER I BOYHOOD (1819-1841) LONG ISLAND had been the home of the Whitmans for generations. l!'ish-shaped, as "Vhitman loved to picture it, it stretches away from New York, running a little to the north of east, for one hundred and twenty-five miles, with an average breadth of about twelve. On the north it has several fine harbours, in the middle a ridge of low hills, on the south a scarcely broken stretch of narrow, desolate, dangerous beach, protecting the inner waters of a chain of bays. The western settlements in the island were originally Dutch; the eastern were made by the English, - IndelJendents of the old bl'eed, shut off from Connecticut by the Sound, and from New York by the sandy wilderness, but sturdily content in their isolation. Journeying east from New York, even as late as Whitman's childhood, one soon passed out of the village of Brooklyn and its outlying farms into the gre~t Hempstead plain, unbroken by tree, shrub, or fence, a pasture-ground Table of Contents...

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