Excerpt from Jenny Lind in America At length the vessel reached Canal street; and here the crowd, who had been patiently waiting the arrival of the Northern Nightingale, was immense. Some thirty or forty thousand people must have been collected together on the adjacent piers and shipping, as well as on all the roofs and in all the windows fronting the water. The Spars and rig ging of the vessels, the bulkheads along the wharves, and the very fenders of the Hoboken Ferry House were covered with eager gazers; while from every quarter of the city crowds might be seen hurrying toward the dock of the Atlantic, and in creasing the thronging and almost countless multitude already waiting there. As the steamer slowly glided into her place. 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.