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The area that had burned had recently been rebuilt \"in costly grandeur,\" said Watson, having been the site that the Dutch had originally occupied.  According to Watson, the only building standing was owned by John Benson, a cooper, located at 83 Water Street.  Many out-of-town people were touring the area, while the wonder of native New Yorkers had subsided.  Watson thought that much of the destruction was due to inferior construction methods that featured walls that were too thin and cheap lime from New England.  Watson included a diagram of the area of the fire. \nWatson was born in Batsto, New Jersey, the son of William and Lucy Fanning Watson.  In 1806 he opened a mercantile house in Philadelphia and was later listed as a bookseller and stationer.  In 1814, Watson accepted a position as cashier of the Bank of Germantown and received a notary public commission.  He remained with the bank until 1848.  He then became secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, where he remained until 1859.  Watson was also an amateur historian and a pioneer in the use of oral histories and public opinion questionnaires.  He published, among other works, Annals of Philadelphia, Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Settlement and Advancement of New York City and State, and Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Early Settlement  and Progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.  In 1812 he married Phebe Barron Crowell and had 7 children."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1835"},{"label":"Creator","value":"John Fanning Watson (1779-1860)"},{"label":"Place","value":"Trenton, New Jersey; New York, New York"},{"label":"Format","value":["Manuscript"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Diaries","Men-Diaries","Trenton (N.J.)-Description and travel","New York (N.Y.)-Description and travel"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"Collection 189\n58x29.8"},{"label":"Finding Aid","value":"http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0189.htm"},{"label":"Rights","value":["No Copyright - United States"]},{"label":"Source Collection","value":["Watson Family Papers (Col. 189)"]}],"description":"Excursion ot Trenton July 1835.  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On Saturday the 4th July – the 59th Yr of Independence, there being a military   compy going from our home, to Trenton, to pass the day in its celebration, I availed   myself of the occasion, to offer a trip of recreation & observation to my son Barron, by   going in their company; & to make the occasion the more impressive to the Military, I   lent them my Hessian – tassel taken from the flag captured at the memorable Battle of   Trenton, - to append to their own flag; & also a golden locket containing Washington’s   hair, & a picture on the reverse of “the passage of the Delaware”. – This last was   suspended round the neck of the Captain at the time of dining & drinking their toasts.     We started from Germantown, early in the morning by the rail-cars, & I could not   forbear to admire at the cheapness & facility of this new conveyance to the city, brought   so close to our very doors! – At 6 ½ A.M. we started, with ten cars fully laden with   passengers, on the new Rail road to Trenton.  Whilst sitting in the Cars at Kensington –   near the Market house, waiting for the starting time, my mind went back in its recollectns   to the period of my boyhood, when the same area was all open green commons, & having   an elevated green bank of Battery-ground, on the margin of the River bank, - then an   open gravelly strand. – Now the whole space is filled up with compact well built houses"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d2c10935-2918-4efd-ba21-c3367868bfd8/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_4","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"10","height":2181,"width":1470,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c8e26632-b58f-4113-b061-0b28bbcd6fa0/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c8e26632-b58f-4113-b061-0b28bbcd6fa0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2181,"width":1470},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_4","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the conceptions of the calm & staid inhabitants – Speculation, so far, has not stirred up &   waked their faculties.  Strangers, may perhaps do this matter for them.     In returning home on Sunday afternoon, by the River, in the Steam boat it was   wonderful to see the numbers of congregated people which waited for us at the several   landings along the River. – Men women & children came onboard in scores & hundreds,   until we had at last upwards of 700 persons who paid for their passages!  We were a   moving world of people, & yet all went on quietly & without accident. – This cheap   means of conveyance, gives facilities of motive recreation & amusement, which tends   still more & more, to make us a travelling people.  It struck me as strange, that among so   many hundreds, that I should not recognize above a half a dozen of persons & faces; - It   might repress undue vanity in any one, to be so little known in a crowd; - perhaps not one   of them, ever thought, while I was present, that here stands the author of the Annals of   Philada & New York. –     In all these notices I have said little of my Son; I made him, however, partake of   my feelings & remarks, so far as he was able; and perhaps he will remember this   common visit, and our several conversations & remarks – elicited by the things we saw, -   in years to come.  These pages will serve to revive some of our Examinations &   reflections."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c8e26632-b58f-4113-b061-0b28bbcd6fa0/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_5","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"11","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3aacddb4-ef7d-48b3-b308-f8594be6faf4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3aacddb4-ef7d-48b3-b308-f8594be6faf4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_5","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"The Great Conflagration    of New York,       Decem 1835        a storm of fire, a surging Sea of flame!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3aacddb4-ef7d-48b3-b308-f8594be6faf4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_6","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"12","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7e967609-c07a-433b-b41e-f94de018174d/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7e967609-c07a-433b-b41e-f94de018174d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_6","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"1    a storm of fire, a surging Sea of flame!          The great conflagration of New York City in December   1835, - the greatest wonder & calamity & befalling the greatest   city, hitherto known to the Western world, - were subjects of    sufficient excitement & interest, to induce a journey in mid-winter,   - purposely to visit the ruins, & to see the havoc & dessolation which   the devouring element had inflicted.    Such a scene of devastation, can only be expected to occur once in a century, or but once   in a life; and when the spectacle – once got up, is showed off at such tremendous   expense, & with such terrific display, it must surely be worth a journey of observation, -  “to note & observe”! –   Such thoughts influenced my mind, & induced the visit to the   scene of destruction on Christmas day the 25 Decr 1835, - being eight days after the   dissaster had closed its career of ravage & dismay.     In the intermediate journey, - from Philada to New York, by the Rail road – via   Camden & Amboy, - how very impressive it was to witness & feel the rapid progress, by   so striking an evidence of the triumph of art, over the former obstacles of natural roads –   which consumed three days in the State-wagons, & now went through from 8 to 2,   o’Clock! -  How wonderful the improvement, & the change, which could thus afford   means to transport as it did, fire men & their Engines, from Philada to NYork, to aid in   subduing the devouring element!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7e967609-c07a-433b-b41e-f94de018174d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_7","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a37c5423-2766-4816-8c9d-99b672a39ec0/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a37c5423-2766-4816-8c9d-99b672a39ec0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_7","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"2    On my arrival in the City of New York, my first impulse was to inspect the awful ruins.    In doing so, I was necessarily obliged to see, beforehand, the persons of numerous   citizens at the warves & along the streets – Their faces, nor actions, indicated none of   those excited feelings, which my own emotion, might have suggested as very natural   from the occasion – Indeed, it was but too true, that the wonder of the occasion, had   much subsided; and this agreed with the fact before observed, in the intermediate   journey, that the mass of travelling passengers – equal to 150 persons had already found   out other topics of conversation & interest!     Soon, however, I entered upon the scene of ruin, - and oh! what a scene! – to   contemplate an area of 45 city acres in absolute destruction!  To see still, the charred, the   blazing & smouldering embers – to scent the tainted air, loaded with smoke from the still   consuming parcels of Cotton, Coffee, tobacco, tea, cotton & woolen goods, - still resting   in cellars, covered with masses of bricks & broken granite.  Of 529 buildings of the most   costly fabric, of 4 & 5 stories height, - which were consumed, only one – a conspicuous   Salimander, was remaining: - Benson’s fire-proof copper-store, of 4 stories, upon No 83   Water Street! - There it stood unscathed, - an oasis in the surrounding desert!     It was passing strange, to contemplate in one view, so great a mass of towering   architecture or 529 houses of brick & granite, all prostrated – all gone down, into their   own tombs, in their several Cellars; or in some cases, tumbling into the narrow streets, &   clogging"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a37c5423-2766-4816-8c9d-99b672a39ec0/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_8","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"14","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0494893e-f3d2-46c1-bef2-8104225cabee/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0494893e-f3d2-46c1-bef2-8104225cabee","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_8","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"3    up their passage – here & there, were to be seen, cragged & deformed fragments of   standing walls – some of one story – some, more slender & lofty, of 2 or 3 stories, acting   as pointers & indices to the ruined area, & warning the inquisitive explorer, like myself,   to beware of coming within the verge of their expected fall – On some they had fallen &   broken limbs, even while I was there!  Amid these ruins, guided by the remains of the   several former streets, were to be seen continuous lines of male & female passengers –   come in holiday clothes from country villages, to behold the catastrophe – I speak of   them generally as strangers; for in truth, as I afterwards ascertained, the proper   inhabitants of New York, had already ceased to visit the place, as an affair of worn-out   character – superceded by something more recent, & of fresher news! – Even as I   overheard some gentlemen, near the place, conversing & saying, - that “usually their   occasions of excitement lasted 24 hours; but here was one of 38 hours!  and now no   longer such!”  Truly, this destruction has fallen upon men of peculiar elasticity of spirit &   enterprise – It is almost wholly upon the mercantile class, - accustomed to risk & chance,   & who are habituated to recover from mishaps & dissasters – They were very generally   insured; & so generally too, that the chief of their present concern is the probability of the   Insurance Compies being unable to divide more than an average of 50 PC. – Yet losing as   they must, there is no betrayal of heart-sorrow in the countenances of the street-walkers,   nor in the congregations of the churches.  They still look wholly like their former selves."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0494893e-f3d2-46c1-bef2-8104225cabee/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_9","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"15","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/66ea725e-39fe-479a-b611-d7b44cd59816/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/66ea725e-39fe-479a-b611-d7b44cd59816","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_9","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"4    yea more – they even give to other charities – for instance, at Dr Brodheads church where   I was, they gathered in the annual collection for Missionary purposes 320 Ds!*     I visited the ruins both by day & by night, spending in such observations, from   one to two hours at a time.  It was sad to see the cartloads of goods, which could, even at   the end of a week, or ten days after the Fire, still be rescued from the heated cellars –   Thus great piles of ready roasted coffee, was brought out – piece after piece of Calicoes   & worsted, scorched & smoking, were drawn out of others – Piles of prepared Tobacco   for chewing, - numerous pigs of lead – masses of bar iron & iron chains – Cotton in   bales, - burning in places, & extinguished in others – labouring men, all dingy with the   smut of the fire, working in many places to clear away the rubbish, & to still preserve   something from the flames –     The best & most extensive perspective – view of the whole area was to seen from   Coenties slip, looking thence across to the line of Wall St, as a background – I was so   impressed with the utility of preserving such a spectacle, for people at a distance, & for   posterity, that I immediately suggested to Col Stone, the Editor of the Comce Advr, that a   call should be made for some one or two lythographic views of the scene; and after I   returnd home, I directly prompted Mr Breton to go on and endeavour to execute them.     He agreed; but soon after declined because of the proposed Diorama of the same by   Wright.  Still however the print is a desideratum!     The lurid glare of the night spectacle – seen as I saw it on the 28th Decr, just   before daylight, was awfully impressive.  Fires of small dimensions could be seen every   here & there, - of goods still consuming, and affording enough of illumination amidst the   general gloom, to show the explorer his path-way along the former streets.      Marginal note: (in text) * It is probable that 2/3ds of all the families in New York, might   themselves become liberal contributors to the Sufferers –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/66ea725e-39fe-479a-b611-d7b44cd59816/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_10","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"16","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d5db8134-ff92-401b-8954-a17b0a2eab74/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d5db8134-ff92-401b-8954-a17b0a2eab74","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_10","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"5    How different the quiet & desolate scene, from its recent busy mark of commerce! – I   met no individuals - heard no voices, & had the whole silence & solitude to myself!    I set upon a heap of ruins near to a warming fire; and indulged in reveries & musings.  I   thought of Tyre of old, “whose merchants were princes, & whose mansions were   palaces”, & thought of the quickening influences of Commerce, wherever they are freely   indulged, and not ignorantly fettered.  I thought there of the unwise system which denied   to Foreign underwriters (like the Phoenix Co of London) the risk of our preservation, and   reserved to themselves the sole privilege of being responsible for the calamities of their   own people!  The practical issue, is that the ruin of 17 millions of property, is a family   concern of a whole city, wherein all are mediately or immediately, involved!     Altho’ I had not seen the actual conflagration which began at Comstock &   Andrews’ Store on Mercht St, on the night of Wednesday the 16 Decr, & raged through   all the next day until Thursday evening, I could still imagine the terrific & appalling   picture, -    “Could see her flames from lofty mansions rise,   And send their eddying columns to the skies –   Where spreading Fire makes night a brighter day,   Nor skill or courage can its fury stay –   The richest merchandize of every name, -   The worth of millions, - feed the flame –   And one vast ruin meets the aching eye”!     In the time of the fire, when dismay & confusion were at their utmost height,   great prices were offered & given, for help in any needed form – Twenty dollars were   given for a single cart load, & even 100 Ds  was asked, & given –! one Mercht on South   Street, by the river side, who saw the high"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d5db8134-ff92-401b-8954-a17b0a2eab74/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_11","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"17","height":2185,"width":1459,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/21153fca-07bc-4283-9447-031e11484473/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/21153fca-07bc-4283-9447-031e11484473","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2185,"width":1459},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_11","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"6    extortion of those who had not their own carmen at hand , offered, & actually purchased a   horse & cart for 500 Ds & thereby saved his own property of 80,000 Ds by removal! –   My friends Clark & Smith, offered after the fire had consumed their store, 100 Ds to   sundry bystanders, working men, to pull out their iron chest - It was soon done, & the   books & even Notes, were all saved – although so charred and injured as to be necessary   to transcribe the books!     It might surprise many to learn, that while I & others, travelled to the scene, from   100 miles, that there were numerous persons, even in New York City, who never waked   or heard of the fire! - My own kinsman Mr B uptown heard of some cry of fire about the   time of his retiring to bed, but little regarded it; & he and his wife & two servants,   actually slept out the whole night in Bleeker St, without knowing that there had been any   fire, and that he had actually lost a large store with 2500 Ds a year Rent!     Some others of my friends, near Houston St & Broadway, were at a wedding   party, and altho’ they heard of the fire at a distance at 9 O’Clock, not one of them left   their entertainment till midnight; & then only one of them, - on his nearer approach   homeward, saw or heard enough of the fire to influence him to go on to the place of   desolation. – There in his gala dress & dancing pumps, he had to set to earnestly to pack   up his store goods, near the Exchange, & send them to the Battery ground for safety – he   eventually lost 2000 Ds.  Three of the other guests, went home to rest, & never heard of   their losses until the next morning, when they found their stores and all their contents,   were dissolved in fervent heat!     It is the strangest thing to contemplate, that nearly 600 houses of the loftiest &   most expensive fabrics, should go down to absolute ruins in so short a space of time."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/21153fca-07bc-4283-9447-031e11484473/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_12","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"18","height":2171,"width":1493,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0949a6b2-cdcb-45a7-9883-c67bca3ac23f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0949a6b2-cdcb-45a7-9883-c67bca3ac23f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2171,"width":1493},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_12","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"7    One would think that the bare walls might be found standing; but it was not so. – It is said   that they build with insufficient width of wall for such large superstructures of four and   five stories, - & above all, that the cheaper lime which they have preferred from Maine, R   Island & Albany &c, has been wholly unequal to that which Philad County supplies to its   architecture.  The Granite & marble pillars on which many of the fronts of the houses   rested, were wholly unable to sustain the action of fire & water; & fractured & rived, in   such manner, as to be no support to the Walls above them!  The narrowness of the streets,   & the undue elevation of the houses – (a sufficient warning to us!) prevented fire men   from acting with effect.  These circumstances, while they hindered men from aiding,   greatly encreased the action of the heat, - So that such an intensity of fire, has never been   surpassed.  I saw China stores where the masses of broken china was vetrified in clusters.   – Zinc & Copper, from roofs, was found in the drenching form of gushing water, - the   masses of nails, screws &c in iron stores, were partially dissolved, & then cooled in   union.  I preserved some such fragments; & I also brought away a whole Ewer, which   had endured all the fire, at the China store of John Greenfield & Sons in Pearl St., close   to where a China Store was blown up, & caused the arrest of the fire at the head of   Coenties slips, on Pearl St.     It was quite interesting to see numerous temporary signs – lettered on pieces of   boards, & set upon poles stuck in the ruins, directing visiters where to find the former   occupants of the places, which they beheld – They were equal to several hundred names –   One house which had actually lost all, & without insurance, waggishly put up their names   with the words “the remains” to be found at __________ &c !     The grandest & most imposing views of the great fire were"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0949a6b2-cdcb-45a7-9883-c67bca3ac23f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_13","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"19","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/43aa19d5-dcd7-42fe-8a3c-95a0b97485b1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/43aa19d5-dcd7-42fe-8a3c-95a0b97485b1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_13","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"8    seen from Brooklyn, Weehawken & Staten Island – There the whole city scene in one   awful sheet of flame - & the sky above was inflamed in reflected terror.  The Sea waters   below, were all illuminated with firy glare – On one occasion, turpentine which took fire   on the wharf ran down, all on fire, into the water, & floated off, making a blazing sea of   many hundreds of yards square!  The shipping cut off from the wharves, & made their   escape in time, else their destruction would have been entire – for the very wharf logs, &   wharf posts, along the river side of South St, 130 feet from the Stores consumed, took fire   & burned to destruction! –    The Illumination of this great fire was very far extended southward.  Even at the hills of   Germantown 100 miles off, & at sundry places equally distant in Jersey, the illumination   of the atmosphere was witnessed, & observed!     The number of Fire proof Iron chests & safes hanging to counting house walls, or   laying pell mell in the ruins, & bruized & broken into useless forms, were very striking   evidences of their insufficiency to secure the possessors from losses of their papers -     It so happens that this dreadful loss has occurred exactly in that part of New York,   of primitive location, which contained the most of the remaining evidence of the first   construction of narrow & winding streets – such as the earliest dutch burghers had   located & enriched – Their last remains of houses, had been but lately reconstructed in   costly grandeur; when lo! in one fell night – by the hands of some incendiary – (if not by   an explosion of a gas-pipe) the whole area of the primitive settlemt of the triangular &   mazy city, was prostrated in ruins!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/43aa19d5-dcd7-42fe-8a3c-95a0b97485b1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_14","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2","height":2242,"width":1482,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/57773f75-0d67-448d-9e12-b1d72bab7c04/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/57773f75-0d67-448d-9e12-b1d72bab7c04","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2242,"width":1482},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_14","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"and “the Long stone bridge”, as it used to be called, over the Cochocksinc Creek, has   become a street well paved & lined with houses; - then it was a long cause-way of raised   ground, hauled there over the former swampy ground, as the common high road. – When   we had attached ourselves to the Locomotive Engine, oh! with what rapidity we went!  It   was an amusement to try to count the pannels of the fences as we passed them.  We went   faster – (15 m an hour) than I could count them beyond 20 to 30 times!  Wonderful   invention! and but yet in its infancy of trial!  The great, black, ponderous machine, goes   with such obedience to mind, & puffs & blows with such vehemence & lungs of fire, as   to seem to run it way with revolving legs, just like anything of life! – The whole country   through which we passed, seemed formed by its uniform levelness to be just adapted for   such a Rail-way.  How very well fitted are all the intervening lands, to run such a way all   the way to New York, & to bring the two greatest cities nigh. – What once took three   days of “the flying Stages”, before the Revolution to execute, can now be visited, out &   home, in the same day!  and this change I have lived to see!  How strange the whole   change!  These were all proper wonders for me to explain & to contrast, to my wondering   son; and yet so common, are these"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/57773f75-0d67-448d-9e12-b1d72bab7c04/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_15","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"20","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cc81c635-5ade-4328-9701-84c7d337fcfb/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cc81c635-5ade-4328-9701-84c7d337fcfb","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_15","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"9      Doubtless, this great evil will eventually turn to a lasting good – “from Evil educing   good”.  The new city to be Erected upon the ancient Dutch plot, will be framed & formed   upon wider & straighter streets – like all the rest of the City now is. – Thus the reproach   of the former model, will be obliterated, and an entire City of graceful construction &   beauty, will be erected; and all this, for the consideration of leaving some of the present   generation, minus in their expected fortunes; but all after-generations, beneficiaries!     When the fore fathers of the present race of inhabitants, were sufferers of the   great conflagrations of 1776 & 78, they felt as if ruin was perpetual, but behold how soon   the evil was healed; & what was felt severely as a partial evil, became a universal good!    - The fire of Sept 1776, which began on Whitehall Slip, burned up all the houses on the   Western side of Broad St & along Broadway down to the No River, to the number of 493   houses! – and the next fire of Augt ’78, which began upon Crugers wharf, & consumed   50 more houses, devastated in the while, all that part of old New York, not included in   the present ruin. – This in effect, - finally extinguishg and obliterating, all the houses of   the earliest Settlers of NYork; & forming an area in the while, quite equal to all of the   Dutch City of New York, which was originally comprised within the limits of Wall St   northward,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cc81c635-5ade-4328-9701-84c7d337fcfb/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_16","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"21","height":2226,"width":1534,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5daf38c5-ff54-4d93-9c36-35ff14a08433/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5daf38c5-ff54-4d93-9c36-35ff14a08433","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2226,"width":1534},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_16","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"10    & the Hudson, & East Rivers. – Their loss then, though the houses were far inferior in   value, was perhaps greater in amount of individual sufferings, than now – And yet, how   soon did their sons pass by the loss, & greatly enrich their city & themselves!     Farewell now, a long farewell, to the american City of the Dutch! – farewell to   “the Scout, Burgornasters & Schepens” no longer there – farewell to your Rondeals &   Stadt Huys – ; - to your compact & mazy streets, no longer to be named in fame or song –   farewell forever, to your ancient, but now burnt out streets – Princess street, Duke Street,   Dock Street, Mill street, & the Great & little Queen Streets, - all, all irrevocably gone!     The former sufferers, unlike the present, had no reclaimations, from Fire   Insurance Companies; but now, there are 25 Insurance Cos with a capital of nine   millions, & with an insurance ad infinitum.  This last consideration of boundless risk, has   been their ruin, & must plead for a reform in future, - Else insurance is a broken read – a   rope of sand!      Some Insurances were made out of NYork.  Tappen had 300,000 Ds in London. – The   offices in Boston had 226 000 Ds risk upon the destroyed property.     As many as 3 or 4 houses were blown up at essential points, to stop the progress   of the flames.  This measure was not resorted to sufficiently early, and when desired,   could not be affected for want of powder.  A vessel however lay in the stream loaded   with the article unknown to the citizens; finally, Mr Chs King volunteered to go over to   the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, for a supply, & when he returned with sailors & marines,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5daf38c5-ff54-4d93-9c36-35ff14a08433/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_17","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"22","height":2192,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/557f1c63-38c3-4980-bc91-95fa963f67a0/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/557f1c63-38c3-4980-bc91-95fa963f67a0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2192,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_17","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"11    the blowing-up went on fearfully & successfully.  It quickly struck down the building, &   left no flame, nor means of communication to other houses.  They used 2 Blls of powder   to a house.     Much fire was carried aloft through the air – It even communicated to roofs of   houses at Brooklyn, - and in one known instance, a letter & a note of hand, were   transferred from a Store on South St, to a house in Flatbush, 5 miles distant!     Not withstanding all these losses, about which the Pulpits were soon after   engaged to make “their improvements” – such as preaching from texts like these – “Is   there evil in a city & the Lord hath not done it” – “And think ye these were sinners above   all the rest upon whom the tower of Siloam fell”? – Yet, at the same time, the gayety &   expenses of others, sons & daughters of pleasure, seemed unabated – Thus the Gazette of   the day announced, that “the Bowery Theatre” on Christmas night, had such great   attractions that nearly 400 persons were unable to find admission”! – “the Franklin   theatre was equally full & well conducted” – “The lovers of sport are informed that the   Long Island dance, which gained such unbounded applause in the Evening of the 22   Decr, is now to be repeated in New York, on the Evening of the 29 Dec, at the Military   Hall” – At the same time, the dexterous thieves are entering several of the houses of the   wealthy, by skeleton keys of great ingenuity, & bearing off their plate & jewels – The   rich, are really subjects of commiseration in New York – They have to live in such costly   splendour, with such ineffective help”; & have such sad exposures to fire beyond other   cities, that their state is ill at rest indeed!  These merchants of New York, live much like   princes, & their dwellings are constructed & garnished like Palaces – They essentially   live up to the adage of, “Win gold & wear it” – In proportion however, as their honours   have been displayed, they have, I imagine"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/557f1c63-38c3-4980-bc91-95fa963f67a0/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_18","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"23","height":2181,"width":1446,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/db191633-e903-454f-9118-584b2954f3ec/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/db191633-e903-454f-9118-584b2954f3ec","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2181,"width":1446},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_18","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"12    diminished their essential comforts & fire side enjoyments –     It specially marks the peculiar destruction of the Merchants property, as a class,   that out of the whole 528 houses destroyed, there were only twelve families deprived of   dwellings! – thus showing, how very exclusively the merchants had supplanted the   former dutch burghers, & crowded their closely compacted stores, into one single cluster   of business! – If the calamity should service to dispense this class of citizens in   companies, so as to cast different branches of trade into other locations, - a thing now   very practicable, they may insure a rise of property whereon they may conclude to fix   themselves, equal to their losses!  This is well worth attention!     It is very remarkable, that while Philada especially, & numerous other Cities,   have been forward to make appropriations for the sufferers, that it is found by actual   examination upon the premises, that only one family has been found willing to accept of   public charity!  It is certainly very strange.     During the fire, Hanover Square, which had been for a short time sought as a   place of security for goods piled up in the street, - equal to 100 feet in length, 60 feet in   width, & 25 ft high, came at last to be totally consumed, - and consisting in general, of   the choicest & richst silks & laces &c –     Midshipman Wilkins – the son of a chivalric father, covered himself with glory in   rescuing at the peril of his life, an infant of a poor woman, whom he found crying in the   street for succour – What a fine subject for grateful remembrance!  He had been   cashiered for insubordination, but Presdt Jackson, upon hearing of this fact, reinstated   him.     This fire has necessarily arrested many intended fashionable parties for the winter,   - and made a blank in many of the expected profits in the Confectionary establishments  -  - It seems, too audacious, to be unseasonably gay."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/db191633-e903-454f-9118-584b2954f3ec/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_19","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"24","height":2181,"width":1531,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c7f23c69-c609-4f1e-af15-61b9b7b58570/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c7f23c69-c609-4f1e-af15-61b9b7b58570","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2181,"width":1531},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_19","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"13          Alarms of fire occurred every night whilst I tarried in NYork, & I could not but   remark, how very little concern people manifested for any fire which did not seem to be   near – This is one of the evils of an overgrown City as NYork already is – altho’ the pride   & ambition of its citizens, will make them to cover the whole island, as an area of 13000   acres.  What a city! & yet all the lots have been measured & sold, again & again, with   speculation!  It is now a fact, that while the large & expensive Stores, which occupied the   burnt premises, & produced rents of 2 to 4000 Ds a year, that the same merchts, who used   them, had their dwellings a mile off in fashionable grandeur; - and while there enjoying   otium cum dignitate, they can neither known nor take any interest in the destruction of   the active capital located in the business quarter – This extremity in their case, calls for   reform –      A fire which consumed two large stores, & occasiond a loss of 70,000 Ds, was   perpetrated by an incendiary, the night before the Great fire – Even the latter is quite as   likely to have been from such a cause, as from the supposed – (but unknown) accident of   a Gas-pipe explosion – It is only conjectured; - and at any rate, the possibility of bursting   such pipes & devasting a whole city, is worth the timely & serious attention of   Philadelphians before they go too far in imitation of this foreign invention, &   embellishment, - as it is called.  We may take solemn warning too, & shun the pernicious   imitation, of 4 & 5 storied houses, producing nothing but ugly deformity in the   perspective – with no adequate counterbalancing advantage!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c7f23c69-c609-4f1e-af15-61b9b7b58570/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_20","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"25","height":2205,"width":1458,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/96477977-7c9b-4f3f-8682-695bc4c8d265/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/96477977-7c9b-4f3f-8682-695bc4c8d265","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2205,"width":1458},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_20","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"14      If one could know all the cases of suffering by the calamity, we should perhaps find it   too often among quiet & unobtrusive widows, females & orphans, who had their   investments in the Fire insurance companies – where the long tide of successful revenue   & consequent high dividends of 9 PC. made them a favorite investment.  Such persons   must pay over their little all to the covered merchants & traders – for these, be it   remarked, have been remarkably tenacious of keeping their current interests insured.  I   know one case of a widowed lady, a loser of 5000 Ds & of her Grand daughter another   3000 Ds, more – In another family three maiden & elderly women, orphans too, had their   whole interest in Insurance Stock, & were weeping themselves sick with apprehension &   evil forebodings, after others had settled down to composure.  Some persons would   inculcate that all this Calamity was a premediated & purposed evil, inflicted by a Divine   hand, & employing as its agent, an incendiary culprit – But if so, where is the   discrimination among the sufferers! – the evil & the good are equally involved, and even   the Dutch Church itself, erected to the worship of God, is among the ruins – Why not   rather, say in the language of the Proverbs, “that time & chance happeneth to all men”,   and that it is the province of divine interposition, “from Evil to educe good” - : - Good to   those who will improve the occasion to note the uncertain tenure of the best earthly   goods, & to lay up their treasure where thieves (like fire) do not break through & harm; -   or else Evil, to those, who utterly overlook the lessons which the losses & crosses of life   should bestow to those that are exercised thereby – But this is perhaps speculating on   religious premises, where I have no licensed charter for my opinion!              See supplement"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/96477977-7c9b-4f3f-8682-695bc4c8d265/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_21","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"26","height":2205,"width":1458,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ccad8b50-bdc9-42b3-a881-60b48db4ae5e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ccad8b50-bdc9-42b3-a881-60b48db4ae5e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2205,"width":1458},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_21","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"16    Supplemental Notes –      In going to such a scene of devastation, one could not but contemplate the new means   by which our rapid intercourse, between the two great cities was affected.  What an   invention by Steam Engines, to join the two cities by an interval of only six hours! – one   too, which answered to convey fire men & fire Engines to the aid of the burning cities! -    How it seems to shorten distances, & to ensure a ready transportation of men & means to   distant cities, in case of any future invading Wars, - like Ross’ assault on Washington, &   the invasion of Baltimore vicinity! – One was led too, to consider how remarkably, little   Jersey, & its sandy soil, is helped “with equal handed justice” & mercy, by its favourable   position for leasing transportation routs across her territory, at terms to enrich the State; -   it is also become by position, the necessary garden soil, & corn growing country, for the   supply of table vegetables – for poultry, good swine, veal &c – and above all, the natural   soil for the luscious peach, & the long extended beaches, for the fine oysters –     As we went through the Country of Jersey, the soil & the houses & farms – all   equally poor, indicated a population to which the road might bring future emolument –   The land being generally level & without any picturesque objects, made the rapidity of   the passage, the more acceptable – It seemed a quick succession of similar objects, all the   way – flit, flit we passed by every thing – worn fences – stunted trees – russet fields –   frozen"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ccad8b50-bdc9-42b3-a881-60b48db4ae5e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_22","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"27","height":2205,"width":1434,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e9f4135d-4457-4a11-adf7-7b0750ce7c95/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e9f4135d-4457-4a11-adf7-7b0750ce7c95","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2205,"width":1434},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_22","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"17    pools – sandy & loamy side banks – thin woods of small oaks & pines, made up the succession all the way to So Amboy – There we saw the stately steam boat, belchg off its surplus steam, & waiting our approach to convey 150 passengers to NYork, via the Narrows - & Staten Island, & the still & slumbering sullen forts, which showed their ports & battle array, as we passed up to the demolished City.     In my passage I conversed with a gentleman from England who had seen the monumental remains of Admiral Penn at Radcliffe Church – The Pillars of the Church, were inscribed with his name & fame; but his own monumental Slab, was of plain black marble.     An elderly gentleman in New York remembered when the site now occupied at the Granite Hotel, a mammoth one too, of Jno Jacob Astor, in Broadway opposite the Park, was a commons or field, on which the negroes from Virga which Lord Dunmore had enviegled away, were encamped in the time of the Revolution.  There they got the small pox, & died in great numbers, & were buried in the negro ground in the near of Chambers St –     I visited the Stuyvesant Church of St Mark as far out as the Water Reservoir, & there got a relic of the wood of the Pear tree, still alive, which had been brought out & planted by Govr Stuyvesant when Dutch Governor from Holland}. The NYorkers don’t know this tree!     The Exempt House, which escaped the flames – was a 4 storied brick building occupied by John Benson, copper dealer No 83 Water St!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e9f4135d-4457-4a11-adf7-7b0750ce7c95/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_23","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"28","height":2205,"width":1434,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ebfbae3b-6eae-4746-afe2-dc0967f8ddfb/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ebfbae3b-6eae-4746-afe2-dc0967f8ddfb","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2205,"width":1434},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_23","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"18    “Brannan’s Gardens”, which had once been preeminent, some 40 years ago, - now all   obliterated, I find, was situated at or near the present junction of Spring St and Hudson St   – It had been the scene of much rural beauty, & had often charmed the visitors from the   City – now it is in the overwhelming city, and all its former features & renown are   forgotten –     The Rail cars which run from the Bowery Street, every 20 minutes, through the   centre of the city-lands, made continuous to the Harlem Village, is of great value as a   means of settling the out town lots to the head of the island – They take passengers up at   any point & give them the entire ride for a shilling – Indeed from the general practice of   riding in the omnibuses in every direction, there seems to be no speculation so well   rewarded, as the investment in travelling vehicles – In olden time, the Dutch burghers, of   all things enjoyed a walk out of town, to Balm & mead houses; but now their enervated &   luxurious descendants, must ride in all errands about town!     There were a couple of projecting houses upon Wall St at the corner of Pearl St,   next to the fire, which strangely escaped the conflagration, altho’ much fire, was about   them & every body could have wished them gone, because, they alone, narrowed &   deformed that fine street.  It is now to be hoped, that as they get injured, & the   neighbouring houses are to be rebuilt, that these two will be made to fall back into their   proper-line of range."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ebfbae3b-6eae-4746-afe2-dc0967f8ddfb/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_24","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"29","height":2242,"width":1482,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f9ae886e-112c-435e-88ea-b5e3b98b5511/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f9ae886e-112c-435e-88ea-b5e3b98b5511","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2242,"width":1482},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_24","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"19          The Great Monmouth Hotel of Astor’s – is not to my taste at all. – It has the   sombre granite walls, & little unornamented windows, of a Prison.  It has not as much   architectural taste of form & character, as the real Provost near it, once of prison-memory   – There is on it a manifest stint of ornament, & it much wants lightness of carpenter   work, or contrasted white marble, to relieve & adorn its heavy, gloomy mass of Walls – It   has no colonades*, or airy ventilations to show off the inmates, nor means to let them see   out upon the passing people. – It has but one massy, centre door – and when one sees the   inmates going in, & that door closing upon them, one instinctively inclines to say   “farewell”! as though one should not expect again to witness their escape! - indeed who   will escape from its four & five storied chambers, when fire, shall generate in its own   bowels & consume the lodgers! - Really, we cannot consider upon it without a shudder &   a purpose to choose any other Hotel of less dimensions, as big enough for comfort - Will   our Philadns have sense enough to construct their intended “Penna Hotel” upon rational   principles of taste & comfort & security; or will they go mad with rivalship, & strive to   gain their fame by surpassing others absurdities.  These overwhelming public houses,   must be extremely selfish & anti-social concerns, malgre all the throng which they   congregate – They can neither know nor feel for each other, in cases of needed sympathy   or aid – What gloomy grandeur for the contemplations of sick or dying inmates, - where   no family sympathises are seen"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f9ae886e-112c-435e-88ea-b5e3b98b5511/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_25","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"3","height":2230,"width":1482,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/19435bf4-8f5c-4ce2-a30f-b3b4e697e69e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/19435bf4-8f5c-4ce2-a30f-b3b4e697e69e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2230,"width":1482},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_25","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"novelties of invention to his every day observation, that he probably most admired, at the   former state of dullness, & patient submission to olden-time necessities!  Within my   memory the good people of Trenton, visited Philada, by their two-horse stage, as a days   journey, at the price of 2 ½ Ds; & now they do the same for 25 cents, & go it in 2 ½ to 3   hours, including the stoppings to take up & set down passengers at 5 or 6 intermediate   places. – At present they go through no towns, save Bristol – After leaving Bristol, we   passd in parrellel line with the Canal going to Easton; & in our seeing this, and the   passing boats & drawing horses, we have another witness of the vast improvements &   developments of our flourishing & happy country – We pass also in sight of, & often by   the side of, the turnpike road, – not long since a much valued public improvement in our   travelling conveyance, but now superceded by better inventions, & to be Seen &   contemplated now, chiefly as a neglected & abandoned rout; no stages, nor carriages   were seen to animate the country or to stir its dust; & Inn Keepers, by the combination of   the Temperance Societies influence, seem likely to be starved out of their employment!     Arrived at Morrisville, named after its former chief Proprietor, Robert Morris, the   financier, now having quite a town at the entrance of the great Bridge, brought me back   to the recollections of that"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/19435bf4-8f5c-4ce2-a30f-b3b4e697e69e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_26","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"30","height":2217,"width":1495,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/464198f1-aca5-4204-b42b-14e7c156e70e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/464198f1-aca5-4204-b42b-14e7c156e70e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2217,"width":1495},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_26","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"20          or felt – Whip me!  such a comfortless exchange for my money!                I felt myself, as a Philadan, complimented by the general stile of the square where   the new university, of entire white marble, is erected, with its four towers – The new   houses which surround it, are constructed after the manner of Philada’s best houses of   fine brick, & all the window sills, stops & door steps, of fine white marble – The coup   d’oeil gives a sudden impression of summer sunshine, & presents the idea of cheerful   residences. – The contrast of this place with other squares of that City, is certainly very   agreeable, - even to those, who like myself, have been sufficiently pleased with the   frequent use of the grave & sober looking brown stone, so often used in lieu of marble.    The University is a building of very interesting architecture – certainly more impressive   from its novelty of construction & display, than any other, which I had noticed in New   York City.                There is another thought suggested by the viewing of this university square,   which is, that it might be a good measure in Philada to make a “New York place” to be   filled with houses after the New York manner of brick & brownstone & iron palisade   embellishments – and another, to be “the Boston place” of Granite stone &c – So as to   bring distant cities, to our occasional contemplation. –                The white marble, has of late, recd a decided preference, for public buildings in   New York – one of great dimensions & immensely massive blocks of purest white, is just   constructing for a Custom house upon the place, originally the City Hall & afterwards   converted into the Congress Hall, when Washington first became President – It is situated   with fronts upon Wall & Nassau Sts – May fire never rend & fracture its sculptured form   & beauty!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/464198f1-aca5-4204-b42b-14e7c156e70e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_27","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"31","height":2217,"width":1397,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dbf150ed-74b5-477f-b865-164b2fa7e065/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dbf150ed-74b5-477f-b865-164b2fa7e065","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2217,"width":1397},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_27","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"21                The cause of so much unparralled havoc, was that a fierce wind – felt equally all   the way to Philada – which was blowing from the NoWest during all the night; and   besides this, the weather was too intensely cold, to admit of a due use of the Engines &   hose.  In many places firemen could be seen beating their hose to prevent the formation   of ice within them –                It was impossible to find fire men reckless enough to ascend ladders, which might   be raised to the eves of houses of four & five stories – and in narrow streets, the water   played so high, necessarily fell back upon the people below.  In such extremities men had   to stand useless gazers upon the destruction of their property                Seventeen blocks (squares) containing houses of the largest & most costly   construction, were consumed in one night!  What an awful picture of the Great Assize   “when the elements shall melt with fervent heat”!                Explosions were often heard, - resulting sometimes purposely from the use of   Gunpowder, and in other cases, from the bursting of liquor casks, & from the presence of   Gunpowder held for Sale – These when they occurred, were subjects of indescribable   grandeur & terror – It set every bosom upon the Qui vive!                How wonderful that in so much just cause of personal apprehension & danger,   that only person should have been wounded, & one other missing!                It was somewhat peculiar that the fire travelled so readily to windward – so that   those who conveyed their goods & stored them for safety in the Merchants Exchange &   the Old Dutch Church, should have had them"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dbf150ed-74b5-477f-b865-164b2fa7e065/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_28","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"32","height":2217,"width":1458,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ea500b93-8ee8-4e3c-9fb7-2d3ca0f8e07c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ea500b93-8ee8-4e3c-9fb7-2d3ca0f8e07c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2217,"width":1458},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_28","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"22    had them overtaken even there by the consuming element, & wholly burned.  The best   refuge was found in the Bowling Green & Battery, where marine guards with fixed   bayonets, gave them protection.     The several streets after the fire, were seen for several days, choaked-up with the   remains of rich merchandizes, - all trampled under foot, and almost totally ruined.  In   short; thousands upon thousands of dollars in value, were lying wasted & whelm’d in   ruin!     Wall after Wall, were seen or heard tumbling like avalanches to the ground, while   flames were darting their tongues of fire, & were heard roaring from roofs & windows,   along whole streets – at same time fire men worn out with over exertions, were still   struggling for mastery over the storm of fire, which seemed to revel in its power, & to   mock all human skill & prowess!     The next day, all the city military were put under requisition, to be ready to   protect property exposed, & to aid the civil authority in the preservation of order & the   Civil rule –     It was curious to see occasionally, the harvest which occurred to the poor, and to   strolling boys & girls.  You could see the rag-gatherers, crowding their sacks with   scorched fragments of cotton & silk stuffs – In one place was the remains of a Jewellers   store in which ragged boys & girls were very busy searching for sundry trinkets.  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It seems strange that so great a fire should not have been reported by any vessel   arriving, as having been observed at Sea!     One can see upon the Eves of the northern side of Wall Street, that several houses   there, were intensely scorched with the fire from the opposite side of that Street.  What an   awful career it must have been, had it succeeded to pass that barrier!  Even the eves of the   Tontine Coffee house, so very high, & at least 130 feet from the opposite buildings, were   quite scorched & charred with the flames.  Houses up by the Exchange, had even their   marble eves pealed & marred!     To the experienced eye, there seems to be still left, enough of towering Stores in   business places, to feed another great fire, when ever circumstances may concur to give it   sufficient head-way.  There are many blocks & masses of Stores from Pearl St to the East   River, which might baffle future resistance.*     In naming sundry streets of olden time recollection, & bidding them a last   farewell [ note page 10] the mind is led to consider how very strange it is, that even those   – first known names, should be all of English formation & origin, & that there should be   so little remains of Orange Boven & the Fader land,      Marginal note: * my objections to five storied houses, were made in Philada – not   wishing them to follow NYork examples – Few regarded – but now in 1842 we see 21   Stores of 5 stories in Platt St are to be cut down 1 story each, to enable them to make less   expensive Insurance!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b795ac1c-a5d1-4544-9aa5-c6777dc7adc4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_30","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"34","height":2254,"width":1458,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c1d1b04f-500a-4dbb-980f-8c809feb80ec/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c1d1b04f-500a-4dbb-980f-8c809feb80ec","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2254,"width":1458},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_30","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"24    retained by tradition or otherwise, of what must have been the first named streets in Niew   Amsterdam.  The Hoere Graft, - once the name of what is since the Broad street, and   which was once literally “the Gentlemen’s canal”, until ordered to be filled up in 1676; -   and the Flatten barrack, near it, which imported the sliding-down hill for the sledding   boys & girls of the dutch race; - and the Nassau streets which joined to & continued the   Broad St; - are the sole names of Dutch origin which have come down to us!     Broad way, without doubt, was not of Dutch formation – It was in fact an   extended Parade, planted in the middle with trees, done by the British.  It was too much   out of town, & too high a ridge, for dutch predilections and business.  They loved the   lowland, & above all their “hoere graft”.  This Broad Street along which they had their   canal, & their road on either side, was joined by Nassau Street as soon as it reached the   town Wall – (which enclosed the town on its northern frontier along Wall Street) – and   continued its course northward until it fell into the Bowery Road, originally called “the   high road to Boston” – At about the same place of junction, the Broadway terminated at a   rope walk, & went off thence obliquely – (along present Chatham street) across the then   “Fields”, - called since the Park, - leaving the then proper Park, under the name of “the   Governor’s Garden”, in a triangular form and just as much south of present Chatham   Street as the present Park is now North of that street! – The oblique road aforesaid fell   into the great"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c1d1b04f-500a-4dbb-980f-8c809feb80ec/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_31","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"35","height":2242,"width":1434,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b3e785ec-ae35-48cc-8aa6-7cef2de5ef04/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b3e785ec-ae35-48cc-8aa6-7cef2de5ef04","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2242,"width":1434},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_31","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"25    absorbing “Bowery road” – not far from where Pearl St, which had coursed the River side   came out & joined the Bowery – The whole leading thence in one Broad avenue to “the   Kings farms” called Bowerys, by the Dutch.  The primitive Burghers had therefore but   one road of egress from the little City, where they have now hundreds!     Those little demi-curved & triangular streets, so clustered & involved at & about   the region of Mill Street Beaver St & Hanover Square &c – so like the diagram of a   fortification upon the map! – around & through which dutch boys in ten broecks, & girls   in linsey woolsey petticoats – once had & dodged & sported & played, shall now be   forever gone, & their memory obliterated – Even more, one desires to know, if possible,   what could have ever induced, the building at first, of a block of buildings of wedge-form   in the very centre of the little triangular Hanover Square, - so indispensable to be   demolished in after years, for the sake of room*! –     The recent fire, & the recent ambition for lofty houses, have almost wholly   superceded the original character of Dutch houses – The pediment Walls & deeply   pitched roofs, are now scarcely to be seen. – Their entire difference from all other   constructions in this new world, gave them a picturesque charm to the traveller.  There is   however, still some prevalence of another & later order of architecture, which strikes me   as more dignified & agreeable in its forms & proportions, than any of those tall ambitious   houses – carrying high-heads upon small foundations; - I mean those respectable looking      Marginal note: * this was done since the Revolution."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b3e785ec-ae35-48cc-8aa6-7cef2de5ef04/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_32","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"36","height":2217,"width":1434,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e2cc96fe-851f-47b5-ae4d-4041be3e23a0/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e2cc96fe-851f-47b5-ae4d-4041be3e23a0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2217,"width":1434},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_32","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"26    double houses, of but two-story elevation, formed of yellowish brick, & contrasted finely   with the brown stone entablatures, porticoes &c - Such a one is finely exemplified in   Lorillards house at the No West corner of Hudson’s Square.  *     The imitation of a Philada range of houses on the University Square, presents an   idea, for useful imitation:.  For instance, why not have in Philada a New York place, after   the manner of brown stone & iron palisades; & a Boston place, after the manner of their   best Granite houses?-  This would be bringing distant pictures home to our eyes.       An inspector of masons work has been talked of – also an intended restriction   upon the elevation of houses so as not to exceed 40 feet.  Insurance offices too, have   needed legislative checks so as not to insure illimitably.       When I saw such masses of fallen Walls – say of at least 500 houses at once, - the   bricks therein so much dissevened, by their inconsiderate use of lime of secondary   formation, it made me remember the much more durable condition of those “seventeen   houses of brick & stone fired by the British in the Revolution, between Philada &   Germantn, and which sustained their bare walls undiminished, as the people may   remember for twenty & thirty years after the event; - in short until they were picked down   by sledge & pick.    Should they condescend to try our Plymouth lime, they may find it to   their lasting future benefit.      Marginal note: (see this same thought on page 20)"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e2cc96fe-851f-47b5-ae4d-4041be3e23a0/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_33","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"37","height":2254,"width":1434,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/25ce77d0-e026-460e-be74-32bfa6a1d8e9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/25ce77d0-e026-460e-be74-32bfa6a1d8e9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2254,"width":1434},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_33","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"27          One may possibly object, that such high Walls are common in Edinburg & Paris –   &c, – and why therefore, do not such old Cities experience such destruction? – The   answer is, that in both those cities they have stone stairs & stone & mortar floors – they   have also division walls of great thickness & jutting up beyond the roofs, & so isolating   every house, as to cut off its communication with others – So that when fires may occur,   it must terminate with the single house – Paris too, scarcely uses any fire - & Edinburg   only coal.     The New Yorkers, will hardly conceive of the interest which their fire, will afford   to others.  They will probably omit the occasion to draw the perspectives of the scene as   it was.  and it will be only after it is too late to draw it from actual observation, that any   attempt will be made to give to persons at a distance, & to future visiters, & to their own   posterity, the chance of seeing by delineation, the things as they were!  What men can see   every day as a spectacle, seems for the time of little worth to them, but there is a   generation to come, which will “earnestly desire to look into these things”!     It shall come to this, hereafter, that they who have seen the catastrophe of New   York, like those who may have seen that of Moscow, may go half a head taller among   their contemporaries!  It was the thing of a Century!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/25ce77d0-e026-460e-be74-32bfa6a1d8e9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_34","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"38","height":2193,"width":1507,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d8057c29-98f6-4dcd-9b2b-3188b6fc611e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d8057c29-98f6-4dcd-9b2b-3188b6fc611e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2193,"width":1507},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_34","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"28      When one thinks of the vast amount of property at stake in such a city, with its   inadequate supply of water, one should think that the ingenuity of man, if directed to the   consideration, by an adequate reward, - might devise an invention which should use the   River tides at the City as a means to generate power enough to elevate any quantity of   Salt water to deluge any given fire when needed.  We have heard already of horizontal   wheels to work in tides.     Only think of human ingenuity to gain a penny! – I saw a shanty tavern of rough   boards actually erected amid the ruins, close by Hanover Square & plenty of customers   too, - even without a licence!     The total loss by this great fire has been eventually reported by the official   examining Committee at the sum total of 17 milln – being 4 milln for houses, & 13   millions for goods – There is however some mystification in this report, which moves our   special wonder, leaves us in the dark & makes the whole uncertain still – It is stated that   528 houses were consumed; but out of all these, only 129 houses are positively certified   as to their value; & these are set down at 1 8/10 milln & their goods at 6 ½ millns, - thus   making these 129 cases, - which is but about 1/5th of the total, to be worth in value, the   half of the whole loss! – and at the same time exactly insured for precisely the same total   value -!  What a very queer result! – It stated in figures in round numbers, it would stand   thus, vizt"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d8057c29-98f6-4dcd-9b2b-3188b6fc611e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_35","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"39","height":2217,"width":1470,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f5f0ca58-f9d6-41ab-94c8-b6061c6e2954/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f5f0ca58-f9d6-41ab-94c8-b6061c6e2954","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2217,"width":1470},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_35","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"29      Ds   129 houses at 14,000 Ds is   1,800,000   398  “      “  at  5,000 Ds is   2,200,000   527      4,000,000     129 stocks of goods at 50,000 Ds  6,500,000   398  .. Do . . . . . . . .     16,000 Ds  6,500,000    527        Ds   17,000,000     Such seems to be the result; - but can it be true, that houses could possibly cost an   average sum of 14,000 Ds a piece! - In Philada, we know it to be a fact, that four storied   brick houses are builded by contract for about 3,000 Ds – Some on High St are   constructed at that price; - & Wisters range, with copper roofs - & granite foundations –   of 18 by 75 feet dimensions, and of best finish throughout, were done for 4100 Ds   severally.     But how puzzling it is, without more information, to conceive a reason why, the   cases ascertained from about 1/5th of the whole, should so far surpass in value, both in   houses & goods, all those persons who did not comply with the expressed wish to learn   the sum of their losses also!      I certainly mean no offence by these spontaneous expressions. – Like Paul Pry, I   had made it my business to be careful in other men’s matters, - and as a busy body, I was   “a chiel among ’em takin’ notes”!  They furnished the material, and I had to think!     One cannot but think too, of the present wealth & grandeur of New York,   compared with its commencement, when it went on contentedly for many years, satisfied   with reed & straw roofs & wooden chimnies to houses & oaken staves, for roofs to its   churches – when too it paid its officers & ministers, & managed its commerce, in pelts,   tobacco, &c with Seawant, - a legal money, made of clam shells & periwinkles!  O   tempora mutantur!     When one contemplates such things of the past in comparison with its present   character, one cannot but consider the bold & dashing, & active spirit of its inhabitants   now, even as compared with the equally refined, but more composed & sedate characters   of Philadelphia - *      Marginal note: * The one is all impulse, the other is steady principle, regulated by good   sense – The one is daring & lives while it can, the other is grave & considerate; -   carefully providing for the future. – To the one, quiet would be distress; to the other,   repose is its comfort.  New York would serve well for our joyous youth, & Philada for   our sober middle age – The one is the City of the heart, the other of the head.  Their   Broad way is but one – so that when you diverge from it into other Streets, you are   perpetually thinking of its absence; but in Philada, the excellence of many streets,   supplies the idea of Chestnut St, still."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f5f0ca58-f9d6-41ab-94c8-b6061c6e2954/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_36","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"4","height":2230,"width":1482,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f01d48ce-969c-4d77-9bef-7e15e3cc68a9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f01d48ce-969c-4d77-9bef-7e15e3cc68a9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2230,"width":1482},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_36","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"distinguished man himself; - And I thought “how are the mighty fallen”!  He who   possessed such wealth & such a princely estate here, became so poor!  Sic transit gloria   mundi! – His very stables – so long, & ornamental still, are of show enough to make a   mansion to a common gentleman, even now! - His place was afterwards owned by Genl   Moreau the distinguished french Chieftain, & afterwards the home & property of my own   master, Vanuxam. - All are now dead & their glory unnamed – Thus shifts the scenery on   this stage of transient life!  These backward thoughts are melancholy; uet Heaven   provides a surer better home.     Arrived at Trenton, - what wonderful changes I witnessed affected, since I passed   there a season when a youth, in the summer of the yellow fever of 1798 – Then I boarded   with Mrs. Frazer in a white frame building adjoining westwd the State house yard.  The   State House, then, was occupied by all the offices of the Government of the United   States! - People have almost forgotten this! – I saw the white frame house, in the main   street – nearly opposite to the Episcopal church – in which resided John Adams the then   President of the UStates. – Such a house, then the head quarters of the American Court,   struck me forcibly, as showing the comparative"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f01d48ce-969c-4d77-9bef-7e15e3cc68a9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_37","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"40","height":2144,"width":1483,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6518fcf-9fe2-45ca-9470-e26acd493ef3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6518fcf-9fe2-45ca-9470-e26acd493ef3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2144,"width":1483},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_37","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"30    Note:  the top of the page is a diagram/map, titled “Diagram of the Conflagration,” an   area bounded by Wall Street to the North, Broad St. to the West, Coenties Slip to the   South, and South St. to the East.     The dark places show where the fire consumed –   The blank places in the squares, where houses escaped –      * This shows the house on Mercht St where the fire began –  (symbol of steeple w/cross)  The Merchts Exchange.  (symbol of flat bldg w/cross) The Dutch Church –  X This house on Pearl St. was blown up & closed the fire southd -  □ This shows the House upon Water St which escaped by fire proof.      It was not till after the Water gave out – say at 4 O’Clock in the morning that they   resorted to blowing-up houses – They used 2 Blls of 100 lb each to each cellar - & then   laid planks from them to the Cellar door – filled up with straw in which plenty of powder   was sprinkled – The straw came out beyond the Cellar door – This last had no powder on   it, but a fire brand – All the doors & windows were closed – It showed no fire in blowing   up – but lifted up & fell, & giving to the earth a shake –      The place on old Slip the “Market” was all a water dock when I first saw New   York – I went up into in a vessel above Water St.  It went up then into the City just as   Coenties Slip still remains a water dock to about Water St."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6518fcf-9fe2-45ca-9470-e26acd493ef3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_38","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"41","height":2156,"width":1250,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/253b54b6-d2a2-40dd-b499-db9089819bff/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/253b54b6-d2a2-40dd-b499-db9089819bff","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2156,"width":1250},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_38","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/253b54b6-d2a2-40dd-b499-db9089819bff/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_39","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"5","height":2230,"width":1470,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f985b456-78dc-4f93-a946-dff967480741/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f985b456-78dc-4f93-a946-dff967480741","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2230,"width":1470},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_39","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"state of our National condition.  It is but a common tradesman’s concern in the present   day, and is actually the rented house of Mr Disbrow a Cabinet maker.  I entered it, to ask   him if he knew the fact of its former occupation, & he, even did not know it! .. but a lady   there – Mrs Woodruff, told me she remembered it, & that Jno Adams & his Secy M Shaw   &c, were boarders there, with Polly Barnes, the Housekeeper.  “But times are altered   now”, & wealth has changed the scene! – The stories of the house are low; & the front is   designated by but one door, & by 4 windows on the 2d story - Tradesmen, now look for   better houses! - The houses of Trenton in that time, were generally of two stories –   mostly of frame construction painted white; several were of brick – none of three stories;   - now they are numerous; & several near to the Market, are of four stories of brick.     In the rear of the above mentioned house of President Adams, I saw as a shade to the   back door the self-same “arch”, under which Genl Washington was honored with   chaplets of flowers, when he passed to his first Presidency, over the Trenton bridge   across the Assampinc Creek – The same arch was brought out again, & made to do   honours to Lafayette’s visit there, before the State House – It is but rough unplained   boards, & whitewashed to give it effect.  The daughter of Judge Ewing"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f985b456-78dc-4f93-a946-dff967480741/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_40","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"6","height":2230,"width":1470,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d86cfe84-e93f-4ac7-a8e2-a6cb79a2e59a/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d86cfe84-e93f-4ac7-a8e2-a6cb79a2e59a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2230,"width":1470},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_40","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"now possesses the letter of thanks, which Washington proffered at the time, for his kind   reception.  Ewings house, where she dwelt then, adjoins to the same bridge. – The bridge   itself, having been the chief battleground, at the Hessian capture, and being withall,   romantic & picturesque in its appearance, I here sketch, from a position on the next   parallel street traversing the same creek down the stream. to wit:    (Note:  here follows a pencil drawing of some detail of the above mentioned site.)    I was sorry to find so very few persons, who are now qualified to give any local   particulars of that memorable Hessian battle. – Much of it was on the street ascending the   Hill adjacent to the bridge.  I was shown the house, where a young woman, just at entring   her own door, had her comb shot out at the top-rim, by one of the random muskets!  The   women & families were all in their houses, & made their way into their cellars.  I saw a   house across the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d86cfe84-e93f-4ac7-a8e2-a6cb79a2e59a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_41","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"7","height":2230,"width":1470,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/207ad450-9449-4d5c-9c50-bee7e30aae24/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/207ad450-9449-4d5c-9c50-bee7e30aae24","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2230,"width":1470},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_41","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Creek, where Robinson once owned & dwelt, which had a cannon shot in its wall.  It   stood where Sterling has now his mustard store on the Hill.  There is still one remains of   the War, but little known – the Barracks, situate on Front Street, near to the Wall of the   State House yard – The Street has been cut directly through its centre; but still its remaing   wings & part of the centre, show a good brick building of respectable & peculiar   construction of two stories.  They are all whitewashed & have very large over hanging   Eves from the Roof.     I felt curious to know if there were any known remains here of the Trent family, -   the original founder of Trenton – He was a Judge, & was poisoned by his own negro, it   was said; but nobody seemed to know. – How incurious are men!  I happened however to   know, that the wife of my friend Majr Z Rossell, who was a Beake, was the niece of a Mr   Trent.  The name is however extinguished in the home of its own foundation!  The oldest   house of best construction, I noticed in the place, stood at the corner of the Market house   street & Green St, on the corner adjoining to the Presbyterian church – It was of one story   of brick, having its chamber story in the roof part.  It looked thus; & I set it down in my   mind, as the proper home of Trent, or of some other first dignitary of the original place –   to wit:    (Note:  here follow two pencil drawings titled, “oldest house” and “Jno Adams’ residence   1798”)"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/207ad450-9449-4d5c-9c50-bee7e30aae24/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_42","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"8","height":2181,"width":1470,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7d731409-806e-488e-818b-103ff8aafb08/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7d731409-806e-488e-818b-103ff8aafb08","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2181,"width":1470},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_42","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"It pleased me much to witness here, the prevalence still, of the old fashioned social   relations, of porches to every house, & to several, porticoes & roofs over the doors, to   afford pleasant sitting places on the street.     This is a great town for stages & hacks, caused by its relation as a great travelling   thorough fare.     I reserved for the last, though not the least important subject, the public water-  improvements & works – not forgetting the mention of the fine spring which is led into   the town by iron pipes, for the pure beverage of the families – it is a capital thing, and   worthy of all praise.  But oh! how I was delighted with wonderment, to see the Sloops &   Schooners of the Rivers & even of the Ocean, laying quietly in snug harbours – in the   bason, or along the Canal, passing through the rear part of the town!  What a triumph of   art & human labour, thus to conquer natural impediments, & to thus to make artifical   rivers, to unite the great commercial cities!*  I looked again & again upon the tall masts   & their fluttering Sails & floating flags, and felt stirring emotions of wonder & praise! –   Along that Canal I went, in a fine barge drawn by three horses with 100 passengers to   Bordentown – it was all wonderful! – and it was not less so, that it should facilitate my   passage to Philada at the very triffling charge of 25 cts!  When I saw the beautiful barge,   filled with lady & gentlm passengers – going from Trenton to Princeton, & thought of the   same waters, traversing      Marginal note:  * “Bid harbors open; public ways extend        And roll obedient rivers through the land”!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7d731409-806e-488e-818b-103ff8aafb08/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_43","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"9","height":2181,"width":1470,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e6d429e6-c9f1-4977-990d-fe8fb75a2b52/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e6d429e6-c9f1-4977-990d-fe8fb75a2b52","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2181,"width":1470},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00201662-8033-42b8-8078-b6cb8f3d1649/canvas/_43","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the whole width of the Country to its outlet to the Sea at Brunswick my mind crowded   with reflections & grateful images of fancy; - I thought of the glad hearts within the   barge, so gliding among the trees & the fields of grain &c; - and of the gladdened &   excited beholders, who should see them pass their farm houses, & secluded country   positions –     The feeder, is another Canal, which comes along thro’ the Town from many miles   up the Delaware, & empties itself into the Grand Canal.  It also was filled with small craft   & boats bearing the commerce of the Country.  The whole combination of Water-action,   is a new Creation, the result of inventive minds; and offers a new impulse to every kind   of active industry – How quietly our forefathers rested under former moderate   satisfactions, & never dreamed of witnessing such a change!  Such changes do indeed   dissipate sober conceptions, & lead out the mind to unrestricted & wild imaginations, of   what may chance to be the history of future changes! –     The Canal – called “the Water power”, which runs along the margin of the   Delaware, & by the front-river side of Trenton, presents a continuance of six miles, along   which, Mills of every variety of action & purpose, may hereafter be introduced for the   purpose of machine labour.  What hundreds of unknown objects now may be hereafter   brought into productive use along this same, now neglected shore!     It strikes me as a fact, that Trenton is hereafter, destined to have a numerous   population; altho’ at present, the Enchanters wand, has not touched"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e6d429e6-c9f1-4977-990d-fe8fb75a2b52/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1e5e75b4-dcd7-4446-9084-2ce2440e7389/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}