Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travelA full and reliable guide ..to ..the United States and the British provincesWith careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists . is given over now to theEmigrant Office for a receptacle of thedebarking foreign populations. The Bowling Green, situated nearthe Battery, and at the commencementof Broadway, is of an oval form,and surrounded by an iron its enclosure is a fountain, thewater of which falls in pleasant whis-pers, to the dusty str
Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travelA full and reliable guide ..to ..the United States and the British provincesWith careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists . is given over now to theEmigrant Office for a receptacle of thedebarking foreign populations. The Bowling Green, situated nearthe Battery, and at the commencementof Broadway, is of an oval form,and surrounded by an iron its enclosure is a fountain, thewater of which falls in pleasant whis-pers, to the dusty streets, of the fresh-ness and beauty of forest-wilds. The Park is a triangular enclosurein the lower part of the city ; it has anarea of 11 acres, containing the CityHall and other buildings. It is embel-lished in its south part with a superbfountain, the basin of which is 100 feetin diameter. In the centre of the basinis a piece of work in the shape of anEgyptian lily. Through convex ironplates, with numerous perforations,placed around the base of this work, thewater is projected into the air, and fallsin the form of a heavy mist, around acolumn, that rises to a considerableheight, through the midst of the greenleaves of the lotus. 110 NEW YORK. Parks and Union Square, New York. St. Johns Park. Small but beauti-ful grounds in Hudson street, belongingto the vestry of Trinity Church, a Chapel of Trinity, ison the east side of the square. Washington Square, is a pleasantup-town park, a little west of Broad-way, with the elegant private residencesof Waverley Place and Fourth street onthe north and south sides, and upon theeast the grand marble edifice of theNew York University, and Dr. Huttonsbeautiful Gothic church. A superbfountain occupies the centre of thesegrounds. Union Park is in Union Square, atthe bend in the upper part of Broad-way, extending from Fourteenth toSeventeenth streets. On the south-eastcorner of Union Square is the UnionPlace Hotel,
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