Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 30
towsof canal-boats come down drawn by one broadand powerful steamboat, and pert little tugspuff their way up and down, here and there.The day-boats go up every morning and thenight-boats follow them every evening. Excur-sions and picnic parties go by in double-deckedbarges, lashed together side by… … On land there is a change almostas incessant. Buildings are going upeverywhere; shanties are being torndown; and streets are being cutthrough here and filled up there, andpaved, and torn up again to lay pipe,and repaired again, and torn up yetonce more. There is a constanteffort toward the…
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