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seen that Quakers drew the plan, and dealt frugally 

 with the space. Market-street is disfigured and the city 

 is deprived of the view, otherwise splendid, towards the 

 river and the Jersey side, by reason of the market- 

 stalls, two long, open buildings set in the middle of the 

 street and extending from First to Third-street.* It is 

 droll how the upper part of these buildings makes so 

 extraordinary a distinction between East and West, 

 rear and front. That is to say. the upper part of the 

 Market-house is the Court-House, and built at either 

 end are balconies, of which that at one end is the place 

 where newly elected Governors are introduced to the 

 people, and at the other end are the pillories for rogues. 

 It is a pity that when the town was laid off, there 

 was such a total neglect to provide open squares, which 

 lend an especial beauty to great towns, and grassed 

 after the manner of the English, or set with shrubbery, 

 are very pleasing to the eye. In Philadelphia there is 

 nothing but streets all alike, the houses of brick, of the 

 same height mostly, and built by a plan that seldom 

 varies ; some few are adorned outwardly by a particular 

 pattern or are better furnished than the general within. 

 Throughout the city the streets are well paved and well 

 kept, highest down the middle, but next the houses 

 there runs a footway sufficiently broad, and laid with 

 flat stones ; this side-way is often narrowed by the 

 ' stoops ' built up before the houses, or by the down- 

 sloping cellar and kitchen doors. There being a super- 

 fluity of space, it would have been easy, at the founda- 

 tion of this new city, to avoid the inconveniences of old 

 ones. At night the city is lit by lanterns placed on 



*And lately still farther. 



