NEW YORK. 



CHAPTER V. 



New York Damask hair-cloth manufactory Dr H - , President 

 Jackson, and Black Hawk Hyde Park Residences in America 

 and Britain Taste for Flowers Cattle and Sheep Scenery 

 of the Hudson and Clyde Fast Eating Albany Coach Pas 

 sengers Women working in Fields. 



SEVERAL days were spent in viewing the beauties of 

 York and its neighbourhood, which the works of recent 

 travellers render unnecessary for me to describe at length. 

 This city is the first city in the Union, both as to shipping 

 and population, which does not perhaps fall much short of two 

 hundred and forty thousand. It is situated on an island sepa 

 rated from the mainland by a small creek passing betwixt the 

 north and east rivers, which some individuals failed in con 

 verting into a canal. From the site of New York as an 

 emporium of trade, there seem to be no limits to the exten 

 sion of the city and its suburbs. It is already the chief outlet 

 of much of the produce of the eastern parts of the New Eng 

 land states, part of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and almost the 

 whole of New York State. When the canals and railways 

 now in progress are completed, it will also become the depot 

 for part of the produce of the states of Indiana, Illinois, and 

 the unsurveyed country to the west of Lake Michigan, tra 

 versed by the rivers Mississippi and Missouri ; and, in the 

 course of events, Upper Canada may be added to the list. 

 The mouth of the Mississippi seems the only outlet, calcu 

 lated by the extent of inland navigation, to vie with New York; 

 but the warm and pestilential nature of the climate unfits it 

 for the reception of produce, and the residence of man. The 

 public and private buildings vary in size and elegance ; and 

 the inhabitants are justly proud of Waverley and Lafayette 

 Places, the houses of the latter being decorated with immense 



