A book of the United StatesExhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ..and presenting a view of the Republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . ickness, each member contributing monthly or week-ly a small sum to the general fund. Of the public institutions, the Penn-sylvania Hospital is on the most extensive scale. It is situated in a cen-tral
A book of the United StatesExhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ..and presenting a view of the Republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . ickness, each member contributing monthly or week-ly a small sum to the general fund. Of the public institutions, the Penn-sylvania Hospital is on the most extensive scale. It is situated in a cen-tral part of the city, near Washington square, and was founded eighty-twoyears since, Benjamin Franklin being its greatest promoter. It containsan excellent library of about seven thousand volumes ; and it is calculatedthat about fourteen hundred patients are annually admitted into it, of whichnumber three fifths are paupers; the remainder paying for the advantagesthey derive from the institution. The building occupies an immenseextent of ground, and on three sides of it an open space is left for a free cir-culation of air; the west end of the building is a ward for insane patients,of whom there are generally more than one hundred. The necessaryfunds for the support of the hospital arc derived from the interest of itscapital stock, and from the exhibition of Wests splendid painting of Christ. Deaf and Dumb Asylum. healing the sick, which produces about five hundred dollars per annumand is exliiljited in a building on the northern side of the hospital United States bank is a splendid edifice, built on the plan of theParthenon at Athens. Its length is one hundred and sixty-one, and itsoreadlh eighty-seven feet. The main entrance is from Chesnut street, by POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 3i: a night of six marble steps, extending along the whole front of the portico,which is supported hy tluted columns four and a half feet in diameter. Inthe centre of the building is the banking room,
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