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Brackenridge's Journal of a voyage up the river Missouri, 1811; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest Coast, 1811-1814

Note 15 — Chapter I

J. V. (Jedediah Vincent) Huntington translation

Fly Market, the oldest in New York, and begun in 1706, was at the foot of Maiden Lane. The name is a phonetic corruption of the Dutch pronunciation of valley, “v’ly.”—Ed.

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