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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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The Avenues are parallel to one another, Broadway being nearly parallel to them but seeming the big street, her own mistress & so allowed to rove & turn while the other avenues are forced to go in straight lines. (The old part of the town from the Battery past Wall St & William St where gold is on change is not rectangular & the streets have names). The streets are at right Ls. to the avenues & numbered far up into where there are no streets at all or even roads. The city strikes one as quiet at night but it is ill lighted the public amusements are over early & there seem
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The Avenues are parallel to one another, Broadway being nearly parallel to them but seeming the big street, her own mistress & so allowed to rove & turn while the other avenues are forced to go in straight lines. (The old part of the town from the Battery past Wall St & William St where gold is on change is not rectangular & the streets have names). The streets are at right Ls. to the avenues & numbered far up into where there are no streets at all or even roads. The city strikes one as quiet at night but it is ill lighted the public amusements are over early & there seem
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