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 CHAPTER XXII.

Greater New York.

On visiting all other cities I could draw a comparison, but New York is a city of itself. None other exists like it, with its steel structures looming skyward twenty and sometimes thirty stories high. As I looked from my room window in the hotel, it seemed but one vast sea of buildings, and in the evening it was rather amusing to see men, women and children coming up on the flat roofed houses, from little thatched doors, to get a breath of fresh air, and even the dogs, without a play-ground, would be on the roofs in the day-time. And to look at the electric lights in some of the office blocks at eventide was like looking at the stars.