Identifier: appletonsillustr00newy (find matches)
Title: Appleton's illustrated hand-book of American cities;
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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iters in the United States, as it is inEurope, but the practice has some slight and irregular observance. The traveleris free to do as he pleases in the matter. In all large cities there are omnibuses at the station on the arrival of everytrain, which connect directly with the principal hotels. A small charge is madefor this conveyance. As regards outfit, it is important for the traveler that he should be dressed withsufficient warmth. Our American climate is very changeable, and the traveler hadbetter suffer at noonday from too much clothing than expose himself at night, instorms, or to sudden changes of temperature, with too little. One should wearw^oolen underclothing, both summer and winter, and always have a shawl or extrawrapper of some kind at hand. *5^* In addition to the Hand-Book of Cities, the traveler will need a copy ofAppletons Railway Guide, published semi-monthly, with time-tables corrected todate ; price, twenty-five cents. HAND-BOOK OV AMERICAN CITIES. NEW YORK CITY.
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New York from Brooklyn. n^FEW YORK CITY, the commercial metropolis of the United States, and largest1\; city of the Western Hemisphere, is situated at the mouth of the Hudson Riveron New York Bay, in latitude about 41° N., and longitude 71° W. It occupies theentire surface of Manhattan Island; Randalls, Wards, and BlackwelFs Islands inthe East River; Bedloes, Elliss, and Governors Islands in the Bay, occupied bythe United States Government; and a portion of the mainland north of ManhattanIsland, and separated from it by Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvel Creek. Its ex-treme length N. from the Battery is 16 m.; greatest width, from the Hudson to themouth of Bronx River, 4^ m. ; area, nearly 4H sq. m, or 26,500 acres, of which12,100 acres are on the mainland. Manhattan Island, on which the city properstands, is 13i^ m. long, and varies in breadth from a few hundred yards to 2J m.,having an area of nearly 22 sq. m., or 14,000 acres, to which the islands in the EastRiver add 400 more. The

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