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Synopsis
Excerpt from Picture of Philadelphia: Or a Brief Account of the Various Institutions and Public Objects in This Metropolis; Being a Complete Guide for Strangers; With an Addenda of All Improvements to the Present Time
The following picture of the primitive settlement of Philadelphia cannot fail to be interesting to many. it is extracted from a very curious and entertain ing work on the antiquities Of Philadelphia, by J. F. Watson. The author has, with great industry, col lected a mass of facts relating to the ante-revolution ary history of Philadelphia, which were rapidly pas sing into oblivion, and preserved many valuable me morials of distinguished men.
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