Visitors' Guide Book to Philadelphia: Including the Points of Historical Interest, Hotels, Municipal and Federal Buildings, Colleges, Libraries, Museums, Hospitals, Asylums, Parks, Places of Amusement, Clubs, Commercial and Mercantile Organizations, Churc
Visitors' Guide Book to Philadelphia: Including the Points of Historical Interest, Hotels, Municipal and Federal Buildings, Colleges, Libraries, Museums, Hospitals, Asylums, Parks, Places of Amusement, Clubs, Commercial and Mercantile Organizations, Churc
Excerpt from Visitors' Guide Book to Philadelphia: Including the Points of Historical Interest, Hotels, Municipal and Federal Buildings, Colleges, Libraries, Museums, Hospitals, Asylums, Parks, Places of Amusement, Clubs, Commercial and Mercantile Organizations, Churches and the Great Industrial Plants The new city-founder doubtless thought that he was providing amply for the metropolis he had in view when he laid out a site from river to river two miles in extent, and one mile in width to north and south. It would have ...
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Excerpt from Visitors' Guide Book to Philadelphia: Including the Points of Historical Interest, Hotels, Municipal and Federal Buildings, Colleges, Libraries, Museums, Hospitals, Asylums, Parks, Places of Amusement, Clubs, Commercial and Mercantile Organizations, Churches and the Great Industrial Plants The new city-founder doubtless thought that he was providing amply for the metropolis he had in view when he laid out a site from river to river two miles in extent, and one mile in width to north and south. It would have been like a dream of Aladdin to fancy a city like that which now exists, 129 square miles in area, 22 miles in extreme length and with a width varying from five to six miles. This is what the two square miles devised by Penn have become. Of course, much the greater part of this broad area is not closely covered with buildings, but its rural section is in a measure occupied by partly de tached towns and Villages, outlying parts of the great city near at hand and the rule Of which extends over the whole region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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