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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1789 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE, For DECEMBER, 1789. FOR THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE* Description of the City of Ai^^A^Y.^JVith a Plate. TH E city of Albany is fitu-ated on the weft-lide of theHud Ton, 160 miles northward fromthe city of New-York, in lat,i^2® 36. It was incorporated foearly as i686; and by its charter,is to extend one mile in front, onthe river. This city contains about40CO Inhabitants : and the numberof its houfes amounts to about 600,principally built by trading people,near the water. The houfes whicharc moftly of brick, are built inthe old Low Dutch ftyle, with thegable-ends towards the ftreet, andterminating at the top with a kindof parapet, indented like ftairs.The roofs arc very deep and heavy ;and on the fummlts of many ofthem, is placed a ftaff or fpire,with the figure of a horfe, of (hectiron, tin-plate, &c. fixed thereon,by way of a weather-cock. Thewalls of the houfes are clampedwith iron, in the form of letters,numerical figures, arrows, and otherdevices; the lette

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