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New York appeared to us a lovely and a noble city I think New York one of the best cities I ever saw, and as much superior to every other in the Union, Philadelphia not excepted) as London to Liverpool, or Paris to Rouen. Its advantages of position are, maybe, unequalled any where. Located on an island, which I think it will one day cover, it rises, like Venice, from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth-I think it covers nearly as much ground as Paris, but is much less thickly peopled.