Lo straniero in America : contenente le osservazioni fatte durante una lunga residenza in quel paese, sul genio, le maniere e le usanze del popolo degli Stati Uniti ; con i dati biografici dei personaggi pubblici ; Note e fatti relativi alle arti, scienze, commercio, agricoltura, manifatture, emigrazione e commercio di schiavi. ce degli Stati Uniti, Phi!a-delp.iia, poi capitale e sede di governo, è stato stimato per contenere 6.000 case, e 40.000 idiabitants. Un autore americano, da cui alcune di queste osservazioni sono selezionate, dichiara tbat, dal funzionamento del fede

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The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States ; with biographical particulars of public characters ; hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade . ce of the United States, Phi!a-delp.iia, then the capital and seat of government, was estimated to con-tain 6, 000 houses, and 40, 000 iidiabitants. An American author, fromwhom some of these observations are selected, states tbat, since theoperation of the federal constitution, four or five hundred houses havebeen annually erected, no small proportion of which (it is said not lessthan two himdred) have been built by a single citizen, W. Sansom, Esq.This is greatly over-rating the increase, as the eighteen years of the com-pact of the union, taking this writers medium at 450, would produce8, 100; which, added to the original 6, 000, would make 14, 100 housesin Philadelphia. This writer is rather unfortunate in his calculations, for in the very next page he observes, that the city is supposed to con- • The police is generally active and well regulated in all the large cities in the United States. Theyhavejusticesof the peace, constables, aud walchnicD, according to the English system. tain. J^ .5 •J e MARKET OF PHILADELPHIA, l79 tain 13, 000 houses, and eighty thousand peo|)le—but even this is a highcalculation. From a plan taken by a British officer of engineers, whenGeneral Howes army lay iu Philadel[)hia, it appears that it is now dou-ble the size; and, notwithstanding the ravages of the yellow fever, itspopulation has increased in proportion. The market is the great boast of the Philadelphians. It is a coveredbuilding, 420 of my steps, in length, exclusive of the intersections ofstreets, an5 I calculated mv step to be a yard; but onlv five feet inbreadth, including the butchers benches and blocks. It is well sup-plied; and its reg

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