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arms as lie recognized me, and exclaimed " Good heavens ! what a 

 scene, and / took some Londoners to the steps of the City Hall last 

 summer, to show them the Park of New-York ! " I consoled him 

 with the advice to be less conceited thereafter in his cockneyism, 

 and to show foreigners the Hudson and Niagara, instead of the 

 City Hall and Bowling Green. But the question may well be asked, 

 Is New-York really not rich enough, or is there absolutely not land 

 enough in America to give our citizens public parks of more than 

 ten acres ? 



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