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The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
l that we read of Tyre in ancient times, and of Venice in modern, has been surpassed by this wonderful city. Tyre and Venice were the growth of ages. New York is the growth of forty years. Thirty-six years ago the water was let into the great Erie Canal. Thirty-six years ago New York had but 150,000 inhabitants — to-day she has 900,000. That this enormous increase of population has been owing to the great Erie Canal, there is so little doubt that we never hear it disputed. At the same time tErie Canal, there is so little doubt that we never hear it disputed. At the same time that this western trade has made New York what it is, it has kept Philadelphia steady in the march of progress, and but a few paces in the rear of her sister city. In the meantime Baltimore, having the advantages of neither, has grown into a mighty city through the same influence. She is larger than Philadelphia would be, fully as large as New York would be, had neither possessed any more means of reaching the Great West than they possessed fifty years ago. She is almost at the head of the Ches