SOUTH AMERICA. 267 

 Ere long, it will be on the coast of North America, what Fourth 



Journey. 



Tyre once was on tliat of Syria. In her port are the 



ships of all nations ; and in her streets is displayed 

 merchandise from all parts of the known world. And 

 then the approach to it is so enchanting! The verdant 

 fields, the woody hills, the farms, and country houses, 

 form a beautiful landscape as you sail up to the city of 

 New York. 



Broadway is the principal street. It is three miles and streets, 



houses, &c, 



a half long. I am at a loss to know where to look for a 

 street, in any part of the world, which has so many 

 attractions as this^ There are no steam-engines to annoy 

 you by filling the atmospliere full of soot and smoke ; 

 the houses have a stately appearance ; while the eye is 

 relieved from the perpetual sameness, which is common in 

 most streets, by lofty and luxuriant trees. 



Nothing can surpass the appearance of the American American 

 ladies, when they take their morning ^^ alk, from twelve 

 to three, in Broadway. The stranger will at once see 

 that they liave rejected the extravagant superfluities 

 which appear in the London and Parisian fashions ; and 

 have only retained as much of those costumes, as is be- 

 coming to the female form. This, joinpd to their own 

 just notions of dress, is Avhat renders the New York ladies 

 so elegant in their attire. The way they wear the Leghorn 

 hat deserves a remark or two. With us, the formal 

 hand of the milliner binds down the brim to one fixed 



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