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

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

 summer; to show them the Park oi New-York!" I consoled him 

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

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

 City' Hall and Bowlipg Green.' But the questioD m ay ^well be asked. 

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

 enough in America to give our citizens puTblio parka of more than 

 ten acres ? 



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