Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 24 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe

No two cities within a hundred miles of each other, remarks the Traveller just cited, can di¿'er more than New York and Philadelphia. The latter has far less appearance of bustle in it, than the former, and the people one sees in its streets, are even more sedate and respectable in their looks, than the same class of persons in New York. Philadelphia contains no street that equals Broadway in splendour and variety, but it possesses some superior in regularity and ele gance. Chestnut-street, which is the finest and most fashionable part of the city, comprehends many divi sions that will bear a comparison with the best parts Of the New Town of Edinburgh, and the interior of the houses is proportionably tasteful and commodious.

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