New York as It Was and as It Is

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Excerpt from New York as It Was and as It Is: Giving an Account of the City From Its Settlement to the Present Time, Forming a Complete Guide to the Great Metropolis of the Nation, Including the City of Brooklyn and the Surrounding Cities and Villages, Together With a Classified Business DirectoryNew york, the Great Metropolis of the Nation, and most favored City in America, owes its commercial prosperity and great wealth mainly to its natural position, as regards land and water - the Island being surrounded by tide-waters and navigable rivers, with a capacious and well-protected harbor contiguous to the Atlantic Ocean. This, in connection with its healthy climate and fruitful soil, by which it is surrounded - while lying near the middle Of the Temperate Zone - altogether make its position unrivaled either in the Old or New World. Then comes its system Of internal communication by means Of the Hudson River, the East River and Long Island Sound, together with Canals and Rail roads leading west to the Great Lakes, and to almost every other point of the compass - reaching Southward to the Gulf of Mexico, and Northward to near the Gulf of St. Lawrence - the Railroads, by numerous lines, crossing the Highlands and mountain barriers and the fertile Valley of the Mississippi, penetrating to the base of the Rocky Mountains, then extending still further westward by one main line to the Pacific Ocean - all pouring an immense amount of wealth into this favored mart.Ocean Steamers Of the largest class are enabled to enter the harbor and ap proach the wharves at all seasons Of the year, carrying annually an immense amount Of merchantable products from every quarter of the globe, as well as a great number Of emigrants, and cabin passengers, to and from Europe and other parts Of the world - altogether making the Port of New York the largest and most favored commercial mart on the face of the globe.The completion Of the Erie Canal in 1826, the commencement of Railroads in 1831, the introduction Of Croton Water and the creation of the Central Park, have all greatly benefited the city. N ow, the demand is for a system Of Rapid Transit to accommodate the wants of the growing population of New York and its suburbs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.