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hundred feet into large reservoirs, from which the city 

 is abundantly and cheaply supplied. 



The hospitals, the House of Refuge, the Philosophical 

 Society, the Academy of Sciences, the Franklin Institute 

 a kind of better mechanics institute, with three thou 

 sand members the schools, the churches, and the mag 

 nificent bay, will each convey to the stranger some 

 special impression in regard to the city, its pursuits, and 

 the character of its inhabitants. 



The churches are numerous, and many of them ambi 

 tious in dimensions and in design. The religious tastes 

 and tendencies are decidedly Protestant; and among 

 Protestant sects those which follow the simplest forms of 

 Worship are the most numerous. Thus, among the 

 churches, 24 are Presbyterian, 18 Protestant Episcopal, 

 8 Methodist, 8 Quaker, 5 Baptist, 5 German Lutheran, 

 5 Roman Catholic, 4 Synagogues, 2 each of the Dutch 

 Reformed and Universalist persuasions, and 1 each of the 

 Unitarian, Swedenborgian, Moravian, German Reformed, 

 Independent, and Protesting Methodist. This relative 

 proportion of the several sects is remarkably contrasted 

 with that of New England, in which the Independent or 

 Congregational interest is so strong, and with the State 

 of Massachusetts, in which that form has so very exten 

 sively assumed the Unitarian type. 



In Philadelphia, I had the pleasure of meeting an old 

 friend in Professor Hare, long known in England 

 almost as well as in America ; and as I was fortunate 

 enough to arrive on a Saturday, he had the goodness to 

 introduce me in the evening to one of the very agree 

 able whister parties of this city, where I enjoyed the 

 opportunity my leisure would not otherwise have afforded 

 me, of meeting a large number of the celebrated lite 

 rary and scientific men, in whom Philadelphia is so 

 rich. 



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