SEAPORTS. 101

133. New York.

We will first study the great seaports, and
then the inland cities. :

New York has a larger trade than any
other city in the United States.

The greater part of this city is on an
island near the mouth of the Hudson river.

New York has one of the best harbors in
the world. Brooklyn and Jersey City are on
the same harbor, and the three cities together
form one great center of trade. Its commerce

 
 
 
 
   
 

Public Gardens, Boston.

is now about equal to that
of London, the largest city in
the world. The rie canal leads
from Lake Erie to the Hudson
river, and many of the products

134. Boston.

Asa seaport of the United States, Boston
ranks next to New York.

Boston has a fine harbor. This city was
for a long time the chief port through which
the products of the prairies and plains were
sent to foreign lands. The building of the
Erie canal turned a large part of this trade
to New York. The cities and towns for
many miles around Boston have hundreds of
busy workshops. Here are many mills mak-
ing cotton and woolen cloth;
shops for boots and shoes; and
factories for all kinds of jew-
elry, clocks, knives, forks
and other articles.

    
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

ot the West reach New York by
this route. Long lines of railroad
also run to this city, from all parts of the
country. The West sends some of its grain,
beef and iron, while the South sends part
of its cotton and other products to this port.

New York is a great center of manufact-
ures. Nearly all kinds of goods are made in
this city and the region around it.

~The canals, ships and railroads carry back
to the West and South clothing, shoes, tools,
tea, coffee and hundreds of other articles.

New York is the chief money center of the
country. -Many of the longest lines of rail-
road are owned here.

Water Front, New York.

Boston is like a main office for these busy
workshops. It receives for them such prod-
ucts as raw cotton, wool, hides and leather,
and, then sends cloth, boots, shoes and other
manufactures to all parts of the United States
and to many other countries.

Boston handles more wool than any other
city in the United States. It is also the
greatest boot, shoe and slipper market in the

_ world.

This city and its suburbs have been the
homes of many famous patriots, poets and
authors.