Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . QUAKER AND TORT. 197 which, put into smaller houses, might possibly bringsome return. The Folly became a row of buildingson Sanson! Street, and only -- the underground laby-rinths, so massively builtas to defy the reconstruct-ors, remain, and may pos-sibly puzzle future explo-rers. Many houses of lessermagniticence, but of equalinterest, had been builtduring the second fiftyyears of the settlement, afew of which still remain,but chiefly in and betweenthe city and Germantown,improvements having doneaway with most
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . QUAKER AND TORT. 197 which, put into smaller houses, might possibly bringsome return. The Folly became a row of buildingson Sanson! Street, and only -- the underground laby-rinths, so massively builtas to defy the reconstruct-ors, remain, and may pos-sibly puzzle future explo-rers. Many houses of lessermagniticence, but of equalinterest, had been builtduring the second fiftyyears of the settlement, afew of which still remain,but chiefly in and betweenthe city and Germantown,improvements having doneaway with most of thosein the business part of thecity. Whitpains GreatHouse, Binghams Man-sion, Loxleys house andBathshebas Bath andBower have left no trace,but in Germantown many of the first buildings are stillstanding, one of the most interesting of these being theold Livezey house, occupied by families of the samename for two hundred KERAMICS AT STENTON. 198 A SYLVAN CITY. Bot of W. NiCOLL, . aid, $3, Continental money had had its day, ruining nuiny ofthe holders and hringing about a rate o-f prices only«(iualt(l in the last days of the Southern orii^inul l)ill of purchases in 1781 is still to be seen,readini: as follows : LAiT. A. .M( Lane :January .>, 17S1. 1 pair boots, 6^4 yiLs ralico at $85 per yard, 6 yds of L-hintz at $150 do. 4^ yds moreen at Si00 do. 4 handkerchiefs at 5^100 do. 5 yds quality bindiui^ at $4 per yard,1 skein of sUk, If paid iu specie, £18 payment iu full for W. Nichols, JoxA. Jones. Like that in New York, the Tory element of Philadel-phia wtlcoincil British occupation as the final settle-imiii of the in>oli-nt n-volt of the lower class againstthe and joined with the British othcers in suchcarnival as has never since been seen. The WalnutStreet Prison was crowded with starving prisoners, thesur
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