THE BATTERY.
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A European traveller of some celeb rity, gives the following description of the harbor of New York:

 s'l have never seen the bay of Ma ples; l can, therefore, make no eompa- rison; but my imagination is incapable of conceiving any thing of the kind more beautiful than the harbor of New York. Various and lovely are the ob- jeets which meet the eye on every side, but the naming them would only be to give a list of words, without conveying the faintest idea of the scene. I doubt if ever the pencil of Turner could do it justice, bright and glorious as it rose upon us. We seemed to enter the har- bor of New York upon waves of liquid gold, and, as we dartcd past the greer isles which rise from its bosom, like guardian scntinels of the fair city, tn. setting sun stretched his horizenta