. Views in Philadelphia and its vicinity : engraved from original drawings. pan of onehundred and ninety-five feet, and an elevation from the sur-face of the river of thirty-one feet; the western pier is a workof i-egular and solid masonry, in a depth of water forty-onefeet, in which respect it is supposed to exceed every other inthe world. It was executed in forty-one days and niglits, andcontains six thousand one hundred and seventy-eight perchesof stone. The Upper Bridge, at Fairmount, consists of asingle arch of gieat beauty, stretciiing over the whole surfaceof the river, and is three hun
. Views in Philadelphia and its vicinity : engraved from original drawings. pan of onehundred and ninety-five feet, and an elevation from the sur-face of the river of thirty-one feet; the western pier is a workof i-egular and solid masonry, in a depth of water forty-onefeet, in which respect it is supposed to exceed every other inthe world. It was executed in forty-one days and niglits, andcontains six thousand one hundred and seventy-eight perchesof stone. The Upper Bridge, at Fairmount, consists of asingle arch of gieat beauty, stretciiing over the whole surfaceof the river, and is three hundred and thirty-four feet wide,a span believed to be greater than any other in existence. Beyond these works are seen the celebrated structures thatsupply the city with water; on the right of the foregroundthe buildings originally erected for the same purpose; andaround, the increasing edifices, which are fast depriving thestream of every picturesque feature, and lea\ing it rather thechannel of abundant commerce, than an object of admirationto the lover of simple 1 ! PHILADELPHIA THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. The Bank of the United States was incorporated in tlie year1816, with a capital of thirty-five millions of dollars, distri-buted between the Parent Bank and nineteen Branches. Todescribe its nature and its operations, would lead us too farfrom our present purpose, which is simply to illustrate, by ashort explanation, the view of the Building at Philadelpliia,in which the general administration of the Bank and itsbranches is concentered. The corner stone was laid in April, 1819, and the wholewas finished near the close of 1824. The cost of the groundwas Sl55,628—of the structure itself, 8257,452—making anaggregate of 8413,081; an expense which may be regardedas very moderate, when we consider the great mass of mate-rials which it contains; there being not less than 41,500 cubicfeet of marble in the porticos and walls—about 3 millions ofbricks, and 3000 perch
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