[24] Wood, 5 (ed. by A. J. Spooner).
[25] 1828.
[26] Whit. Fellowship, op. cit.
[27] Comp. Prose, 4.
[28] Ibid., 6.
CHAPTER II
BOYHOOD IN BROOKLYN
The hill-range which forms the back-bone of Long Island, and upon whose slopes Walt Whitman was born, terminates on the west in Brooklyn Heights, which overlook the busy bay and crowded city of New York.