NEW YORK. 13 



for use. This was invariably the feature of 

 the country, with here and there a patch of 

 fifty or sixty acres taken in from the woods 

 and improved. The fields are small, poor in 

 soil, and enclosed with rough stone dikes. 

 After quitting the railway I had not an op 

 portunity of seeing the country between Ston- 

 ington and New York. 



I now found myself in a magnificent city 

 containing about 300,000 inhabitants the 

 streets spacious, particularly the foot-paths, 

 which appear to be double the width of those 

 even in the more modern parts of London 

 the Broadway, three miles in length, and 

 many of the other streets one and two miles. 

 All is activity and bustle, and here, with the En 

 glish language in his ears, and a general En 

 glish appearance in his view, one may easily 

 fancy himself in London. 



The streets are quite as much crowded 

 as those in London with foot-passengers ; 

 and the shops are large and elegant, but there 

 is not the same crowd of carriages, waggons, 

 carts, or other vehicles, and there are but few 



