| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 300 pages
...and towns. New York is situated on New York or Manhattan island, about 16 miles from the Atlantic, at the junction of the Hudson and East rivers. It is the most populous city in America, and one of the first commercial places on the globe. The city is principally... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1841 - 334 pages
...and towns. New York is situated on New York or _Manhattan island, about 16 miles from the Atlantic, at the junction of the Hudson and East rivers. It is the most populous city in America, and one of the first commercial places on the globe. The city is principally... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1844 - 346 pages
...of that gloomy period, was the theatre of active hostilities ; and the surrender of General Buigbyne and his army, with other memorable events, took place...junction of the Hudson and East rivers. It is the great commercial emporium of America ; and is, next to London, the greatest in the world. Its progress... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1844 - 306 pages
...Niagara Falls. New York is situated on New York or Manhattan island, about 16 miles from the Atlantic, at the junction of the Hudson and East rivers. It is the most populous city in America, and one of the first commercial places on the globe. The city is principally... | |
| Benjamin Naylor - 1848 - 134 pages
...the boundary between New York and New Jersey— flows into New York Bay — and is 350 miles long — the City of New York is situated on Manhattan Island...— at the junction of the Hudson and East rivers— 18 miles from the Atlantic Ocean — has a population of 371,000, and is, next to London, the greatest... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1851 - 348 pages
...British government. The state, for the greater part of that gloomy period, was the theatre of ctive hostilities ; and the surrender of General Burgoyne...junction of the Hudson and East rivers. It is the commercial emporium of America ; and is, next to London and Liverpool, the greatest in the world. Its... | |
| Benjamin Naylor - 1851 - 154 pages
...York Bay, and is 350 miles long. The towns of N., P., C., H., A., L., T., and S. are situated on it. The city of New York is situated on Manhattan Island, at the junction of the Hudson and East rivers, 18 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of 371,000 — is the largest city in the United... | |
| New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1854 - 936 pages
...produced. " New- York is pleasantly situated on Manhattan Island, about sixteen miles from the Atlantic, at the junction of the Hudson and East rivers. It is the most populous city in America. It is more commercial than any other city in the middle States. The... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1860 - 360 pages
...important in the United States. NEW YOttlv. •9310. Very ample provision is made for popular education in this State ; and in no part of the Union do greater...population by two only of the great European capitals. View cf the lower part of the City oi New York. 13. New York is the greatest commercial emporium in America.... | |
| 1857 - 78 pages
...Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Hoboken, £c.), the third in point of population of the cities of Christendom, is situated on Manhattan Island, at the junction of the Hudson and East Rivers, and eighteen miles from the Atlantic Ocean. The city and county are comprised in limits embracing the... | |
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