Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 507
the sea a big seaport has grownup. We have Cairo on the Nile, and New-Orleans on the Mississippi, and New York onthe Hudson ; Buenos Ayres, the metropolis Ofthe southern hemisphere, on the La Plata;Para, young, lusty and hopeful, at the mouthof the Amazon; Hamburg on the Elbe; andso on, in an… … THE HARBOR OF SAN FRANCISCO. leans, for in-stance, frommost points ofview, is builtin the mostunlikely place.The streets arelower than thesurface of theriver and onlya great dykeof earth keepsthe big stream from sweeping the city off thecontinent of North America. The city ofNew Orleans stands like…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 507](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/1024/ia-stnicholasserial352dodg-507-561.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial211dodg-533-470.webp)
