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Title: A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources ..
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: (Sears, Robert), 1810-1892. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, R. Sears
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ndsaie strongly fortified ; and the entranceto the lower bay is defended by FortHamilton, on Long island, Fort Lafay-ette, on a rock in the water, and batte-ries on Staten island, opposite. TheHudson river opens a natural navigablechannel of 150 miles to Albany, andwith the vaiious canals and railroadsheretofore mentioned ; while the Eastriver communicates with Long Islandsound, which pours much trade into thiscity. Lines of the most capacious andsplendid steamboats lead daily, and al-most hourly, in all directions ; and newchannels of communication are now inpreparation, which will still further fa-cilitate and extend the great commer-cial relations of New York. The streets in the lower and oldestpart of the city are generally narrow andcrooked; but in the upper portion, towhich many of the inhabitants havechanged their residences within a fewyears, they are straight, broad, wellbuilt, and more agreeable. The number of churches is 245. Ofthese tljere are—baptist, 31 ; congrega- r^J
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188 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. tional, 9 ; Dutch reformed, 17 ; friends,4; Jewish, 11 ; Lutlieran, 5; methodistepiscopal, 31 ; methodist protestant, 2;presbyterian, 35 ; associate preshyterian,4 ; associate reformed preshyterian, 2 ;reformed presbyterian, 4 ; protestantepiscopal, 47; Roman catholic, 21; uni-tarian, 2 ; universalist, 4 ; Welsh, 3 ;miscellaneous, 16. There are about forty banks, exclu-sive of eleven for savings. There are^asylums for lunatics, at Bloomingdale;colored, indigent, and aged, at 42d street;deaf and dumb, 50th street; blind, 9thavenue; orphans, 117th street, and 71ststreet, 6th avenue. Prince street, 11thstreet, and colored orphans, 12th street;lying-in women, Marion street ; old la-dies, 20th street. Schools.—Ward schools, 19; primary,3; schools of the Public School Society,18, and primary, 59. Both the wardand the public schools are free to chil-dren of all classes, and wholly gratui-tous, even to the books used by the chil-dren. The latter wer

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