Chap. XV.
NEW YORK.
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for three miles to my destination, along crowded, handsome streets, but I believe that I only traversed a third part of the city.
It possesses the features of many different lands, but it has characteristies peculiarly its own; and as with its suburbs it may almost bear the name of the "million-peopled city," and as its growing influence and importance have earned it the name of the Empire City, I need not apologise for dwelling at some length upon it in the succeeding chapter.
