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NEW YORK. 



vessels of every description arriving and sailing 

 with every breeze that blows. — The inhabitants 

 of this great commercial city strike the eye 

 of a stranger, landing immediately from the 

 opposite shores, as generally of a consumptive 

 habit, wanting that healthy appearance, and 

 florid complexion, which characterize the 

 English. Mendicity was no where to be seen. 

 I was never arrested by the voice of the beggar 

 in the streets ; nor is the eye or ear of the 

 public at any time offended with profligate 

 females, as in the metropolis of the mother 

 country. Every where you see an active, 

 inquisitive, enterprising people, and the whole 

 state is flourishing in her internal improve- 

 ments, to an extent unparalleled in any other 

 state in the union. Religious Societies are 

 upon the advance, and appear to be conducted 

 with an increasing and well-directed zeal ; while 

 the whole population of America, consisting 

 of more than eleven millions, scattered over an 

 extent of more than one million of square 

 miles, is every hour becoming a more numerous, 

 and a more reading population. The light of 

 science and the arts is diffusing its influence 

 through every part of the rapidly-growing 

 Commonwealth; while every facility is afforded 

 to the instruction of the rising generation at 



