The international geography . bs, make thestreets resound with their many trains, although the New Yorkers seem toaccept the noise as a proper part of the bustle of their great city. A hugesuspension bridge connecting New York and Brooklyn very imperfectlyaccommodates the crowds that throng it morning and evening. Philadelphia has been favoured in another manner. It began with the thrift of the Quakerfollowers of WilliamPenn; it has profitedfrom the presence ofmany industrious Ger-man immigrants on therich farming lands ofthe Great Valley, nearat hand ; it has had acommercial advantagein being
The international geography . bs, make thestreets resound with their many trains, although the New Yorkers seem toaccept the noise as a proper part of the bustle of their great city. A hugesuspension bridge connecting New York and Brooklyn very imperfectlyaccommodates the crowds that throng it morning and evening. Philadelphia has been favoured in another manner. It began with the thrift of the Quakerfollowers of WilliamPenn; it has profitedfrom the presence ofmany industrious Ger-man immigrants on therich farming lands ofthe Great Valley, nearat hand ; it has had acommercial advantagein being the southern-most Atlantic port inthe non - slaveholdingStates. Furthermore ithas had great physicaladvantage from abun-dant open ground onwhich to expand, sothat the proportion of houses to families is very large; from thewater power of the Schuylkill, whereby it has come to be a greatmanufacturing city; and from the small altitude and width of the OlderAppalachian Belt in the background, so that the communication with ^^^^. The Site of Philadelphia. The United States 731 the interior of Pennsylvania has been comparatively easy. The uplandsare narrow here because of the strong overlap of the coastal are low, because they have been but little uplifted since they wereworn down in Cretaceous times ; but more than this, they happen here toinclude a tract of weak Triassic sandstones and shales (like those of theConnecticut valley and the Bay of Fundy), which occupies a large part oftheir small breadth, and indeed obliquely traverses them from east to sandstones and shales are now worn down to a lowland, like the GreatValley next adjoining on the west. Nowhere else are the Older Appalachiansso inconspicuous as here. Indeed, if traced by the empirical guide ofheight instead of by their geological composition and their physical cha-racteristics, they might be overlooked, as has often happened in geo-graphical descriptions. Extensive railroad systems connect Philad
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