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Show .. TRAVELS Till OUGTI NORTH AMERICA: fever, w~s very like it. The {hects near the North River arc much more airy; but the mofl. agreeable part of the town is in the neighbourhood of the battery, on the f<.1ut hcrn point of the iOand, at the confluence of th t.vo rivers. When New York was .in pofi"dlion of the En ~lilh, thi: battery con lill:ecl of two or more tiers of guns, one above the other; hut it is now cut down, and afFords a moll: charming \valk, and, 011 a fummer's eve ning, is crowded with pwplc, as it is open to the brc ze frcm the ftn , which render it particularly :tgrccable at that feafon. There i a fine view from it of the roads, Long and Staten Tflands, and Jcricy {hore. At the time of high water the fccne is always interefl:ing on a count f the number of veffels failing in and out of port; fuch as go into the Eafl River pafs within a few yards of th · walls of the battery. From the b~ttery a handfomc ilreet, :1.bout fcvcnty feet vvidc, calle~ Broadwav runs dL•e north hroubnh the town; between it and the North J ' River run feveral ft rcets at right angles, as you pafs which you catch a view of the w::ncr, and boats plying up and down; the diftant {bore of the river alfo i fcen to great advantage. BaJ the {l:rcets on the oppofite fide of Broadway been a.lio carried down to the Eafr River, the effect would have been beautifu l, for Broadway run along a ridge of high ground between the two rivers; it wonld have .contributed alfo very much to the.health of the place; if, added to thi s, a fpacious quay had been formed the entire length of the ci:ty, on either fide, infl.ead of having the borders of the rivers crowded with confufcd heaps of wooden .ilore houfes, built upon wharfs projeCl:ing one beyond another in every direCl:.ion, New York would have been one of the mofl: beautiful fcaports in the world. AU the fea-ports in America ap1 cJ.r to great difadvan~ agc from the water, when you approach near to them, from the {hares being crowded in this n anner with irregular m af1~s of wooden houfcs, fianding as it were in the water. The federal city, where they have ah·eady begun to ereCl the fame kind of wooden wh:1rfs and fton.:hou! cs without any regularity, will be jufr the fame. It is aftonifhing, that in laying out that city a grand quay was not thought of in the pkm ; it would certainly have afforded ecp.1al, if not greater a.ccommod~\- tion rASSAGE UP NORTII PIVEl'. 153 tion fur the {hipping, and it \Vould have addc vontkrf 1lly to the cmbcllifhment of the city. Many or the PI ivate houfcs in N C\V York :l.re very good, particubrl>· thofe in Droachvay. Of the public buildings there are none which ar · very {hiking. The churches and houfcs fur public worfhip amount to no lcfs th<m twenty-two ; four of them arc for Prdbyterian . , thre<.: for Epifcopal ians of th<.: l hurch of Er glancl, three for Dutch Reformifl:. , two for German Lutherans an 1 C.tlvinifi , two for ~.tl·e rs, two for D.1ptifi ', two for J\llethodifi", one for I· rcnch Protcfia nt , ur1c for Moravians, o c for Rom:1.11 'atholic s, and one for Jews. Accor :ling to the ccnfus in 1790, the nun bcr of inh, bitants in New York was found to be thirty thoufanJ one hundred and forty-ei Yht fnx perfons, and two thoufand one hundred and eighty Oavcs ; but at prefent the number is fuppofcd to amount at leafr to forty thoufand. The inhabitants have long been diilingui{bcd above tb oi~ of all the other towns in the United States, cx:c pt it be the people of Charlcfron, for their politcnefs, gaiety, ancl hofpitality; and, indeed, in thefc points they are moil: ftrikingly fup crior to the inhabitants of the other large towns. Their public amufemcnts confifl: in d:1ncing and carcl affemblics, and theatrical exhibitions; for the former a fpacious fuitc of rooms has lately been ercD:~d. The theatre is of wood, and a moO: mifcrablc edifice it is ; but a new one is no building on a grund fcale, which, it is thought, will be as much too large for the town :l.S the other is too [mall. Being an.·io 1s to proceed n our journey before the feafon was too f~11· advancuJ, ancl a!.u rarticub rly defirons of quitting Nc v York on account of the fevers, whid1, it ' ,1c; rumoured, wen.: incr.:afing very f:1fl, \YC took o.ur !Kdh~;c for Ailnny in one of the il ops tradin.; conilantly on the Nortl Hivu, ht tween New York and that pbce, and embarked on the fccond day o · July, about two o'cloc:{ ill the afte rnoon . carccly a bre:Hh of air was ftirring at the timc.:; bu the tid-.: c;:.rricd us up at the rate of al out two miles :tnd a h.tlf an hour. The fky rcmainc~ all day a f<.:rlm: as po11lbl ·, : r d as the \ ',\t r \·a pcrfl.dly 1inuotb, it reflc:C.te~l in a moll bL .• u ift 1 m:t nrH.:r the i ln gc of the v.:nou':l bjeCL on the {}ore, and of the.: numerous vctr·ls Jifpcd."t: .. i alun:; tl , |