A book of the United StatesExhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ..and presenting a view of the Republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . and by successive acts of congress has been continued at Philadel-phia. In 1829, a new building for the mint was commenced in Chesnutstreet ; it has but recently been comj)l(led. It is of the Ionic orde
A book of the United StatesExhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ..and presenting a view of the Republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . and by successive acts of congress has been continued at Philadel-phia. In 1829, a new building for the mint was commenced in Chesnutstreet ; it has but recently been comj)l(led. It is of the Ionic order, andmodelled after a celebrated Grecian temple.* • The new Mint npprars lo he a Tavorito place of resort for the ninous amonp ouif-ilow riii/f-ns. Visitors pass in hy the Chesiuil succl front at all hours of the mumin(f, anil arc at onrc uslu-rcil into a heaiUifiil and cajKnious Imiliiiiit^, well atlapud forthe lm|x)rtnnt purposes for which it was erecicd. When we loolc round it> nmplcdunensiuns, we wonder how it possihlc lo uccuinmudalc so extensive a busniess as POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 310 Of tlic public works of Philadelphia, there is none of which its inhabi-tants are most justly proud than those at Fair Mount, by which the city issupplied with water of the best quality, in the greatest plenty. FairMount is in the rear of the city upon the bank of the Schuylkill. The reser-. Fair IMount Water-Works. Toirs are situated on the top of a hill rising from the river, a part of itperpendicular rock, upwards of one hundred feet. They contain upwardsof twelve millions of gallons, supplying the city through between fifteenand twenty miles of pipes. The water was formerly forced to the reser-voirs by steam, which is no longer used ; it is now raised by machinerypropelled by the Schuylkill. The machinery is simple, and is turned by was done in the miserably confined apartments of the old coining house m , and fail not, at the same time, to admire the neat and sim
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