Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Excerpt from The New Pocket Guide and Street Directory of Philadelphia: With Descriptive Sketches and Illustrations of Fairmount Park, Centennial Buildings, and Other Places and Objects of Interest, and a Large Map of the City Fairmount is' the largest park in the United States, and there is but one, of any celebrity, larger in the world. This is W'indsor, one of the Royal parks in the vicinity of London, which contains three thousand acres. Central Park, New York, is less than one-v third the size of Fairmount Park. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.