A Summary View of America: Comprising a Description of the Face of the Country, and of Several of the Principal Cities; and Remarks on the Social, Moral and Political Character of the People: Being the Result of Observations and Enquiries During a Journey in the United StatesT. Cadell, 1824 - 503 pages |
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... advantages of a port on the sea - board , with those of a port like London or Hamburg , without the delays incident to a long river navigation . So important is this felt to be , that it is common for persons from Baltimore ...
... advantages of a port on the sea - board , with those of a port like London or Hamburg , without the delays incident to a long river navigation . So important is this felt to be , that it is common for persons from Baltimore ...
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... advantages ; and from the insalu- brity of its climate , that city will not probably , for centuries to come , equal New York in popu- lation , enterprise , and capital . New York , like Liverpool , Petersburg , and Calcutta , has risen ...
... advantages ; and from the insalu- brity of its climate , that city will not probably , for centuries to come , equal New York in popu- lation , enterprise , and capital . New York , like Liverpool , Petersburg , and Calcutta , has risen ...
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... advantage , as a distant front view cannot be obtained . In Philadelphia it is necessary to be close to a building to see its beauties ; or , if there be an exception , it is the Episcopal church in Tenth Street , which stand- ing ...
... advantage , as a distant front view cannot be obtained . In Philadelphia it is necessary to be close to a building to see its beauties ; or , if there be an exception , it is the Episcopal church in Tenth Street , which stand- ing ...
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... advantage of the inequalities of the ground , it would have been the object of general admiration , instead of being regarded with con- tempt . Nothing however would suit the citizens but imitating Philadelphia , just as if , admitting ...
... advantage of the inequalities of the ground , it would have been the object of general admiration , instead of being regarded with con- tempt . Nothing however would suit the citizens but imitating Philadelphia , just as if , admitting ...
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... advantages of steam navigation first brought into successful operation there ? And after all , who can wish a more cheering associa- tion , than that springing from the fact , that only about a century and a half ago , all was wilder ...
... advantages of steam navigation first brought into successful operation there ? And after all , who can wish a more cheering associa- tion , than that springing from the fact , that only about a century and a half ago , all was wilder ...
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