A Hand-Book for the Stranger in Philadelphia: Containing Descriptions of All the Objects of Interest in the City and Its Environs, With Views of the Public Buildings (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The object of the present work is to furnish a short description of all the Public Institutions and Buildings of Philadelphia, as well as to direct the attention of the traveller to such objects as are most likely to interest him, and which the time usually passed by visiters in the city, either on business or pleasure, will enable them to see. Having had some experience ourselves in travel ling, we profess to have some of the feeling of a stranger upon his arrival in a city or place which he for the first time visits, and to enter into his wishes to see as much, and as many of the objects as he can, in the space of time allotted to him. Unless acquainted with some resident, he finds it among the most difficult matters 5 first, to asoer tain what objects ought first to claim his attention, from their interest or importance, provided he cannot see all 5 and next, to know how to obtain access to them. In all cities there is a class of objects, which almost always engage the attention.
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