Travels Through North America 



deed, which are spacious and airy, particularly the 

 Broadway. The houses in this street have most 

 of them a row of trees before them; which form an 

 agreeable shade, and produce a pretty effect. The 

 whole length of the town is something more than a 

 mile; the breadth of it about half an one. The 

 situation is, I believe, esteemed healthy; but it is 

 subject to one great inconvenience, which is the 

 want of fresh water; so that the inhabitants are 

 obliged to have it brought from springs at some dis- 

 tance out of town. There are several public build- 

 ings, though but few that deserve attention. The 

 college, when finished, will be exceedingly hand- 

 some; it is to be built on three sides of a quadrangle, 

 fronting Hudson's or North river, and will be the 

 most beautifully situated of any college, I believe, 

 in the world. At present only one wing is finished, 

 which is of stone, and consists of twenty-four sets 

 of apartments; each having a large sitting-room, 

 with a study, and bed-chamber. They are obliged 

 to make use of some of these apartments for a 

 master's lodge, library, chapel, hall, etc., but as soon 

 as the whole shall be completed, there will be proper 

 apartments for each of these offices. The name of 

 it is King's College. 



There are two churches in New York, the old or 

 Trinity Church, and the new one, or St. George's 

 Chapel;* both of them large buildings, the former 



* See Note X. 



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