Washington, D. C., the Nation's Capital
having an excellent harbor. The noted Dupont gunpowder works are near by.
Up the Delaware river is Philadelphia, the largest city of the State of Pennsylvania and the third city in the United States in population and manufactures, the center of foreign, domestic and coast trade.
I then crossed over to Trenton, the capital of New Jersey, and through the town of New Brunswick, in the central portion of the state, to Newark, the largest city, and on to Jersey City, the terminus of railway and steamship lines, to that largest city on the western hemisphere and the second in the world, Greater New York.
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