"It's a place we have a right to boast of is Liverpool; we built it, and I'll tell you what it is, to build two such cities as New York and Liverpool in the short time we did, is sunthin' to brag of.

If there had been no New York, there would have been no Liverpool; but if there had been no Liverpool, there would have been a New York though.

They couldn't do nothin' without us.

We had to build them elegant line-packets for 'em; they couldn't build one that could sail, and if she sail'd she couldn't steer, and if she sail'd and steer'd, she upsot; there was always a screw loose somewhere.
"It cost us a great deal too to build them ere great docks.

They cover about seventy acres, I reckon.