The Picture of New-York, or the Traveller's Guide Through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Picture of New-York, or the Traveller's Guide Through the Commercial Metropolis of the United StatesIn guthrie' s jvezv System of MO (16m Geog, the whole account of the state of new-york does not occupy more tha n three pages of the London quarto edition. In this there is hardly any thing that there ought to be. The information is so general, old, and inapplicable to the present state of 'things, that a lover of truth might rather wish the whole chap ter expunged than that it should stand as it does. And yet this book 15 almost universally read and quoted as authoriu in some pl aces it is even use d for instruc tion in schools.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.