New York measures about ten miles round.

It is triangular in form.

The principal street is Broadway, a spacious thoroughfare extending in a straight line through the centre of the city.

The houses have a clean, fresh, cheerful appearance; many of the stores or shops are highly decorated; the public buildings, including the churches, while they can make no pretension to grandeur, are good of their kind; the university is probably the finest building in the city.

The hotels in New York are far more extensive than anything of the kind in Europe, and they are fitted up and conducted on a scale of princely grandeur.