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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- GOING AWAY, AND THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER THE FIRST GOING AWAY
- CHAPTER THE SECOND THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER THE THIRD BOSTON
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH AN AMERICAN RAILROAD. LOWELL AND ITS FACTORY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH WORCESTER. THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. HARTFORD. NEW HAVEN. NEW HAVEN TO NEW YORK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH NEW YORK
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS SOLITARY PRISON
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH WASHINGTON. THE LEGISLATURE, AND THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE
CHAPTER THE SIXTH - NEW YORK
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- GOING AWAY, AND THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER THE FIRST GOING AWAY
- CHAPTER THE SECOND THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER THE THIRD BOSTON
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH AN AMERICAN RAILROAD. LOWELL AND ITS FACTORY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH WORCESTER. THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. HARTFORD. NEW HAVEN. NEW HAVEN TO NEW YORK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH NEW YORK
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS SOLITARY PRISON
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH WASHINGTON. THE LEGISLATURE, AND THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE
Summary
The beautiful metropolis of America is by no means so clean a city as Boston, but many of its streets have the same characteristics; except that the houses are not quite so fresh-coloured, the sign-boards are not quite so gaudy, the gilded letters not quite so golden, the bricks not quite so red, the stone not quite so white, the blinds and area railings not quite so green, the knobs and plates upon the street doors, not quite so bright and twinkling. There are many bye-streets, almost as neutral in clean colours, and positive in dirty ones, as bye-streets in London; and there is one quarter, commonly called the Five Points, which, in respect of filth and wretchedness, may be safely backed against Seven Dials, or any other part of famed St. Giles's.
The great promenade and thoroughfare, as most people know, is Broadway; a wide and bustling street, which, from the Battery Gardens to its opposite termination in a country road, maybe four miles long. Shall we sit down in an upper floor of the Carlton House Hotel (situated in the best part of this main artery of New York), and when we are tired of looking down upon the life below, sally forth arm-in-arm, and mingle with the stream?
Warm weather! The sun strikes upon our heads at this open window, as though its rays were concentrated through a burning-glass; but the day is in its zenith, and the season an unusual one.
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- American Notes for General Circulation , pp. 189 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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