An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . 37 2B 290 PENNSYLVANIA AND INTBRVIS-W BBTWBBN WILLIAM PBNN AND LORD BALTIuoRB. IS next object was to found a capita]for his new settlement. He chose asite upon a neck of land between theSchuylkill and Delaware, in a situa-tion which appeared at once agree-able and healthy, abounding in water,and with convenient river communi-cations. He gave to it the name ofPhiladelphi
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . 37 2B 290 PENNSYLVANIA AND INTBRVIS-W BBTWBBN WILLIAM PBNN AND LORD BALTIuoRB. IS next object was to found a capita]for his new settlement. He chose asite upon a neck of land between theSchuylkill and Delaware, in a situa-tion which appeared at once agree-able and healthy, abounding in water,and with convenient river communi-cations. He gave to it the name ofPhiladelphia (brotherly love), underwhich it has become one of the mostflourishing cities in the New World. Combining the taste for neat-ness and regularity characteristic of his people, with a love of ruralnature, he planned a town composed of parallel streets, each a hun-dred feet broad, crossed by others also spacious, and some indicatingby their very names, Vine, Mulberry, Chestnut, that the verdure ofthe country was still to enliven them. The purchasers of five thousandacres were to have a house in one of the two principal streets, witha garden and orchard ; those of one thousand in the three next; ««ucb
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