Picture of Philadelphia, for 1824
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Picture of Philadelphia, for 1824: Containing the Picture of Philadelphia, for 1811, by James Mease, M. D. With All Its Improvements Since That Period Spring Garden embraces all the incorporated part of the suburbs west of Sixth, and north of Vine-street, and Kensington is a district north again of the Northern Liberties, from which it is divided, as has been already stated, by Cohocksink creek, to which it is connected by several bridges, built of brick or stone, and one of wood. In process of time this creek will undoubtedly share the fate of that over which Dock-street is now built. Southwark (incorporated) and Moyamensing are its southern suburbs, and Hamilton Village its western, connected with the city by the Permanent Bridge. The defences of the city against an invading army by water, are fort Mifflin, formerly Mud fort, erected on an island eight miles below. The course of the channel compels all vessels bound up to come within point blank range of its cannon. This fort is an embankment well constructed and faced with hewn stone and brick, furnished with salient angles, bomb-proof, &c. furnaces for heating shot, and well supplied with heavy ordinance, and a competent garrison: - and a very large and expensive fortification on an efficient and liberal plan, not yet completed., on a small island called the Pea-Patch, situated a few miles below New Castle. These, in a complete state of repair, properly garrisoned, munitioned and provided for, render Philadelphia unassailable by water. The population of the built parts of Philadelphia and suburbs, according to the marshall´s return in 1820, was 114,410, and in 1810,92,885, making an increase, during ten years, of 21,524. For its anterior progressive state the reader is referred to Dr. Meases Picture subjoined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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