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CHAPTER X. 
Stay at New York. 
ON the ensuing morning, we removed for the present to a 
French boarding-house, No. 76 , Broad street; and I took a first 
walk through the city, in order to acquire some general knowledge 
of it. The city is partly built in a regular style; the streets are 
badly paved, but the side-walks are good, and there are not so 
many hogs running at large as in Albany. I was particu¬ 
larly pleased with Broadway, the principal street. This is three 
miles long, very wide, has elegant stores, and very pleasant side¬ 
walks. The Park is likewise very handsome, as well as the City 
Hall, which is situated in its centre, and is called one of the hand¬ 
somest buildings in the United States. However, I was not ex¬ 
ceedingly pleased with it, finding neither there, nor in the 
churches of this city, a remarkably fine style of building. There 
is a great number of churches, and most of them have church¬ 
yards attached; but for some years past they have interred their 
dead in cemetries, which are situated out of town. At a church 
near the Park, I observed a monument in memory of General 
Montgomery, who died in attacking the city of Quebec; this mo¬ 
nument is not very tasteful. * 
Back of the City Hall is a large building, called American Mu¬ 
seum. It contains a number of curiosities from the animal and 
mineral kingdoms, put up in very good order in two large halls. 
A considerable collection of American birds occupies nearly the 
entire walls of one hall; there are numbers of quadrupeds, though 
less perfect; an interesting collection of fishes very well preserved, 
and a fine series of turtles, from a gigantic species, t seven feet six 
inches long, down to the smallest; there was likewise a consi¬ 
derable series of crustaceous animals; a small collection of mine¬ 
rals, and these without arrangement. Besides, there were various 
Indian weapons, dresses, and other curiosities; ancient and mo¬ 
dern arms of different nations, Suva helmet of the first regiment 
of the Duke of Naussau, found on the field of Waterloo; several 
Italian antiquities, the most of them small lamps and other trifles. 
There is a large and exceedingly beautiful specimen of rock crys- 
* [It was designed and executed in Paris .]— Trans. 
f [Improved by having a number of /Shark’s teeth placed in its mouth and 
throat, ]— Trans. 
