Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ich generally attaches to such events, but is solitary and notable inone exalted fact. William Penn, its founder, was a Quaker, and hiscompanions were Quakers. Their doctrine was eminently peace andgood-will on earth. In 1682 these men of simple and primitive faithpurchased of another simple and primitive race the site on which Phila-delphia (brotherly love) was planted. The two met beneath the trees,in the open air, with the sun and the dome of blue above. The treatymade was never signed, and it rvas never broken, — and the only treatywith Indians that
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ich generally attaches to such events, but is solitary and notable inone exalted fact. William Penn, its founder, was a Quaker, and hiscompanions were Quakers. Their doctrine was eminently peace andgood-will on earth. In 1682 these men of simple and primitive faithpurchased of another simple and primitive race the site on which Phila-delphia (brotherly love) was planted. The two met beneath the trees,in the open air, with the sun and the dome of blue above. The treatymade was never signed, and it rvas never broken, — and the only treatywith Indians that never was violated. At the outset, then, the record ofPhiladelphia is romantic, bright, unsullied, and most teaching. Philadelphia had a little over twenty thousand inhabitants when theDeclaration of Independence was made. The number is now estimated at 212 POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. about six hundred thousand, and its area comprises nearly one hundredand twenty square miles. One of its unique features is the arrangement. FALLS VILLAGE BRIDGE,Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. of the streets in the city proper, and the massive and grand bridgeswhich span Philadelphias noble rivers, — the just pride of the inhabit-ants. The ambition to be a vast city has led the Quakerites to theanaconda practice, first set by New York, of swallowing the smallercontiguous places from time to time. The original city, as is wellknown, is on the checker-board order, — streets intersectmg at right POPULAR KESOKTS, AND HOW TO PwEACII THKM. 21;i> angles, arranged and numbered upon a plan which leaves it no competi-tor. But the additions to the place have altered matters, as a whole;so that the suburban streets of Philadelphia now have their full shareof the hoop-pole style. In sight-seeing attractions, no city has a more diversified nor amore delightful variety than Penns home. Though Nature is con-strained to don the garbs and obey the fashions of human art, yetshe has been gre
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