Excerpt from A History of Philadelphia: With a Notice of Villages, in the Vicinity Embellished With Engravings, Designed as a Guide to Citizens and Strangers, Containing a Correct Accountant of the City Improvements, Up to the Year 1839 He left it and returned again, after an absence, of nearly fifty years. It may easily be supposed, that the alterations and improve ments here, that were made during that time, and the general change which had taken place, must have impressed him forcibly, on his return. He no doubt, saw these changes, with more vividness than he would have done, had he remained here, the whole time. He has occupied some of his leisure hours, (with the aid of a few friends) in noting them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.