. The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . any particular notice, or will belikely to attract the attention of a stranger. Central Park is the great attraction of NewYork in the summer months, and it deservesthe praises so lavishly bestowed upon it. Itoccupies the parallelogram included withinFifty-ninth street on the south, One Hundredand Tenth street on the north. Fift
. The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . any particular notice, or will belikely to attract the attention of a stranger. Central Park is the great attraction of NewYork in the summer months, and it deservesthe praises so lavishly bestowed upon it. Itoccupies the parallelogram included withinFifty-ninth street on the south, One Hundredand Tenth street on the north. Fifth avenueon the east, and Eighth avenue on the is two-and-a-half miles long, about half amile wide, and contains eight hundred andforty-three acres, of which one hundred andforty-one acres are occupied by the Crotonreservoirs, over forty-three acres by thewaters of the park, and of the remainingspace one hundred and three acres are indrives, bridle-roads, and walks. The cost ofthe land embraced in the park was five mil-lion twenty-eight thousand eight hundredand forty-four dollars, and the total expendi-tures for construction, from the commence-ment of work in 1857 up to 1872, was sevenmillion four hundred and nineteen thousand THE PENNSYLVANIA FIFTH AVENUE, ABOVE MURRAY HILL. seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars,making a total cost of twelve million fourhundred and forty-eight thousand six hundredand forty-two dollars. When the improve-ment was commenced, it was one of the mostforbidding spots that can be conceived, beinglittle else than a huge marsh, relieved hereand there by patches of trap-rock, and utterlydestitute of natural beauty: now it is, inattractiveness, excelled by few parks in theworld. It contains about fifteen miles ofcarriage roads, eight miles of bridle-paths,and twenty-five miles of walks. There are three ponds in the park, upon which boatsply in the summer, and which are open toskaters in winter. A special feature are thearchways and bri
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