. Views in Philadelphia and its vicinity : engraved from original drawings. ^ Strickland. 16. University of Pennsylvania .... 17. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ) q Strickland Arts 5 18. Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania 19. Plan of the Eastern Penitentiary . J. Haviland,P. A 20. United States Mint , Sil. Widows and Orphans Asylum . G. Strickland. 22. Schuylkill Canal at Manayimk . . G. Lehman. 23. Eaglesfield W. Mason. 24. Sedgley Park E. W. Clay. 23. Academy of Natural Sciences .. G. Strickland. 26. Title Page T. M. Raser. ^7. Lathe Work on the Cov
. Views in Philadelphia and its vicinity : engraved from original drawings. ^ Strickland. 16. University of Pennsylvania .... 17. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ) q Strickland Arts 5 18. Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania 19. Plan of the Eastern Penitentiary . J. Haviland,P. A 20. United States Mint , Sil. Widows and Orphans Asylum . G. Strickland. 22. Schuylkill Canal at Manayimk . . G. Lehman. 23. Eaglesfield W. Mason. 24. Sedgley Park E. W. Clay. 23. Academy of Natural Sciences .. G. Strickland. 26. Title Page T. M. Raser. ^7. Lathe Work on the Cover—Embellishments ■ . 5 Engraved byJ. G. G. W. G. G. G. Cone. C. G. Childs. C. G. Childs. W. E. Tucker. C. G. Childs. C. G. Childs. ( G. Fairman, & C. G. Childs. C. G. G. G. H. W. G. G. Childs. C. G. Childs. H. E. Saulnier. Fairman, Draper,Underwood & Co.«kS. H. Carpenter. Clark S^ Raser, ^ I 11 I i 41 > .1 PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA. Many of our most flourisliiiig towns and cities look verymuch like tlie results of accident. There is scarcely any in-timation of plan or arrangement in their appeai-ance. Thepaths worn by the infrequent feet of the fiist settlers, havebeen insensibly widened into busy and crowded streets. Or,if the design of founding a city has been conceived, it hasoften liappened tliat the site at first selected and laid out, hasbeen forsaken by personal convenience or caprice, and thenext generation sees a prosperous community spreading itselfout, as if in mockery of human foresight, upon another spot,and along the narrow, crooked, and irregular paths thrownopen by tlie impatient spirit of individual enterprise, whichseldom takes into account the accommodation of is peculiarly the distinction of Philadelphia that it is thesuccessful fulfilment of the original design. The spot uponwhich it now ilourishes
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