Schist

Simon Ford was standing at his door, and as soon as Harry's lamp announced the arrival of his former viewer, he advanced to meet him.

"'Welcome, Mr. Starr!' he exclaimed, his voice echoing under the roof of Schist.

"'Welcome to the old overman's cottage.

Though it is buried fifteen hundred feet under the earth, our house is not the less hospitable.' "'And how are you, good Simon?' asked James Starr, grasping the hand which his host held out to him.

this is stunning.

The Schist Rock, the modern design of it's beautiful.

But hey, the other thing surrounding area, you've got Mount Difficulty Wines, Carrick Winery, very close proximity.

So that would be a nice thing.

So also the idea...

And the way we're going to taste the wines is number one and number two are the family of Gnes and Schist.

And number three and number four are in the family of Granit.

And this is really interesting to see that within the kind of terroir, we have a sub-terroir.

Manhattan Island was in some measure self-selected as a future metropolis by its extraordinary natural harbor formed by New York Bay, actually the drowned lower river valley of the Hudson River enclosed by glacial moraines, the East River, actually a tidal strait, and the Hudson River, all of which are confluent at the southern tip from which all later development spread.

Also of prime importance was the presence of deep freshwater aquifers near the southern tip, especially the Collect Pond, and an unusually varied geography ranging from marshland to the outcrops of Manhattan's Schist, which is a hard metamorphic rock that is ideal for foundations of large buildings.

Now, to 1664.

The Conquest of New Netherland.