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A Natural History of New York Betsy McCully Rivergate Books An imprint of Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London a t t h e W a t e r ’s E d g e City City Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCully, Betsy, 1950– City at the water’s edge : a natural history of New York / Betsy McCully. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3915-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Natural history—New York (State) I. Title. QH105.N7M385 2006 508.747⬘1—dc22 2006007084 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2007 by Betsy McCully All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Designed by Karolina Harris Manufactured in the United States of America ...

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