In 1682 it reached America, when Penn founded Philadelphia.

In 1753, when Kandahar was refounded as a new town on a new site, its Afghan builders laid out a roughly rectangular city, divided into four quarters meeting at a central Carfax and divided further into many strangely rectangular blocks of houses.[125] [123] Compare E.A.Lewis, _Medieval Boroughs of Snowdonia_, pp.
30, 61 foll.
[124] So, too, Lemberg.

Compare R.F.Kaindl, _Die Deutschen in den Karpathenlaendern_, i.

178, 293; ii.

304; he does not, however, deal with the actual plans.
[125] I have to thank the late Sir Alfred Lyall for a sight of a survey made by English engineers in 1839.
But in growing, the old town-planning has passed into a new stage.