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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

a city of 450,000 pop., on Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. The great metropolis of Pennsylvania, and second city in the United States in point of population. Extensively engaged in almost all of the various kinds of manufactures, giving employment to hundreds of millions of capital, and at least a hundred thousand persons. The commerce of Philadelphia is very extensive, especially the domestic coast trade.

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