Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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at right angles, and seven of themare sixty-six feet in breadth. The spacesenclosed between them are 396 feetsquare ; and one of these is ajjpropriatedto public buildings and public purposes.A portion of another is also devoted tothe same use. Main street, Broadway,and Fourth stieets, are the finest streets ;but Pearl street, between Market andWalnut, has a fine block of buildings,in a uniform style, terminated by a largehotel. The Landi?ig-Place. See page 497.—This nearer view of the rivers side willgive a more just idea of the spaciousstreet which borders the shore, and ofthe size of the buildings, though it showsbut a small part of the front line of che-city. The reader will readily perceive,that the landing-place is convenient, asit extends far along the bank, up anddown the river. It is indeed a landing-place well adapted to the extensive andincreasing trade of this commercial me-tropolis of the west. The principal public buildings are thecourthouse, jail, four markets (one of
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500 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO. which is 400 feet in length), the Bazaar,Cincinnati college, the Catholic Athe-noeum, the Medical college, the Mechan-ics institute, two theatres, two museums,the hospital and lunatic asylum, theWoodward high school, and nearlythirty churches. The town is chieflybuilt of brick. Manufactures.—Within a few years,the amount and variety of manufactureshave greatly increased. The principalbusiness is done in heavy iron castings,for steam-engines and machinery. Agreat deal of cabinet-work is also pro-duced, and numerous steamboats andcanal-boats are built every year. TheCincinnati Manufacturing Company havea collection of large buildings on DeerCreek. Great quantities of pork ai-e preparedand shipped at Cincinnati. In 1845,not less than 270,000 hogs were killedin the city. The price was then onlyabout two and a half cents a pound.One of the consequences of this busi-ness is the manufacture of great quan-tities of lard and oil. Numerous steamboats have

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